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In this episode, we sit down with Ethan (Bucky) Buchman, co-founder & CTO of Tendermint, to talk about testnets. We look into what they are, what purpose they serve and cover examples from Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cosmos and Polkadot. Links * Testnets on Karl.tech (https://karl.tech/intro-guide-to-ethereum-testnets/) * The latest gossip on BFT consensus (https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04938) * Bitcoin Testnet (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet) * Ropsten Testnet (https://github.com/ethereum/ropsten) * Kovan Testnet (https://medium.com/@Digix/announcing-kovan-a-stable-ethereum-public-testnet-10ac7cb6c85f) * Rinkeby Testnet (https://www.rinkeby.io/#stats) * Join the Cosmos testnet (https://cosmos.network/docs/getting-started/full-node.html) * Join the Polkadot testnet (https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/blob/master/README.md)