Support for throttled PoW

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PoW blockchain node to gain hands-on experience starting a real network together

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Support for throttled PoW #45

Open notlesh opened 11 months ago

notlesh commented 11 months ago

The PoW is pretty rough on a laptop :)

A couple suggestions to mitigate this:

Ability to add some sleep() calls to throttle mining
dev mode could support a permanent difficulty of 0 so that only a single PoW hash has to be done. this would work well with manual or instant seal.

JoshOrndorff commented 11 months ago

For local testing you can use --instant-seal so that you don't need to mine at all.

JoshOrndorff commented 7 months ago

But instant-seal sucks because you need transactions. And I think it would be nice to not need an entirely separate consensus. I think throttled PoW is the route we should take.

It could have a special flag like --slow-mine or something. But I expect the more common usage would be to have it implied by --dev and a low initial difficulty.