Re: Implement fake common coin to replace the concrete coin (temporarily)

[stout77]

Can someone @maidsafe please clarify this GitHub PR?
I thought the common coin implementation wasn’t necessary to launch Flemming, but reading the above it sounds like the concrete coin solution has some critical flaws.

[digipl]

Was answered here:

Pre-Dev-Update Thread! Yay! :D

Yeah, for clarity on this PR 310, the commit message should give a good explanation. Basically, we realized that our concrete coin (which was always going to be replaced by a common coin once we invest the resources) didn’t play well with some assumptions we’re making. In this PR, we replaced it with an alternative that makes PARSEC not theoritically asynchronous (btw, also a problem the concrete coin has), but that patches the soak tests for the time being. If anything, this may bump the co…

[stout77]

Apologies I missed that discussion