Great progress, but I think we’re not 100% out of woods yet. We need to repeat the process a couple of times (with different difficulty settings and other parameters), make sure it move from POW to POS without hiccup, then Fuzzybear can retire in peace.
Update: building the testnet blockchain, up to block 150 on slow PC.
Update: stuck at 401/end of POW blocks again, how did we get past this yesterday ?
Update: ahh, didn’t change protocol switch time for testnet.
With the current settings, this seems to be a bullet-proof way to get to proof-of-stake blocks with 2 nodes:
*Start the nodes. Wait until they get to 401/end-of-proof-of-work block.
*Send some coins from one node address to another.
*Shutdown and restart both nodes.
*Wait
If you don’t shutdown and restart the nodes, they seem to be stuck at last POW block forever.