Semantics I know but should be called "CoinSim" and not "SimCoin". At first, I thought it was a physics simulation running on Ethereum, but it's a coin simulation framework.
that is a dockerized version of the bitcoin reference implementation. you can build it with `make build-image` (consider to use multiple threads to build the image - check Dockerfile under code/docker).
I think it'd be worth marketing this as 'multi-node' somehow, otherwise the docker piece seems irrelevant. So what's cool is: you can simulate a multiple node blockchain network (and this is technically achieved via docker).
I’m a little surprised we haven’t seen more simulations done to support “big block” and “small block” positions in the Bitcoin scaling debate. Or have there been some?
How many simulations would you like, we already know large blocks propogate fine and at some point they will introduce orphans to a less optimized part of the network
But it doesn't mean they propagate "fine" if it pushes smaller participants off the network. That is exactly what cryptos like Bitcoin are trying to avoid.
I proposed something along these lines, a few years ago, and did R&D on it. But I did not see funding so I stopped. If anyone has funding for me I'll take it up again. Had some pretty neat and useful feature ideas.
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I said exactly what would happen and that the tests exist.