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Questions

Short answers to what people ask most.

A mainnet is the live network where tokens have real value. A testnet is a practice network for developers, and its tokens are worth nothing.

They are network milestones: every 2,016 blocks bitcoin resets mining difficulty to keep blocks near ten minutes apart. The halving is listed the same way.

They are set by block height, so the date is an estimate. Once the chain passes the block, the event is marked done, even if it came early.

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