mining-requires-peers set to "true" in a bitcoin.like network, but it´s not working

Question

We see that the nodes can get disconnected, but they continue mining on itself.

We ccreated the chain with the following steps :

1 - Dowloaded https://www.multichain.com/download/bitcoin-protocol-params.dat

2 - Changed mining-requires-peers to "true"

3 - Changed ports

4 - Changed Network name to myNet

5 - Launch : multichaind myNet -daemon

6 - Sent resulting params.dat to peer node

7 - Run multichaind myNet -daemon on peer node

The issue was before bullet 6, when the first node started, it commenced to mine right away.

Comments

We made a lot of changes to how mining-requires-peers is applied to support the multichain protocol and permissioned networks. So it's possible we made an inappropriate change to its behavior for regular bitcoin-style networks, which MultiChain is rarely used for. I'll ask the team about this and revert.

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Thanks. Do you have an estimation on when it will be reverted?
There are other issues we are finding during the test, we wanted to start changing a few parameters at a time starting from a bitcoin-like chain as the page suggests. Do you still recommend this approach?

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Please see the other answer.

Answer 1

I think this was answered before here..

https://www.multichain.com/qa/3915/mining-requires-peers-not-working?show=3915#q3915

Comments

Thanks for your answer, but it seems that the issue is present in release 1 , as per the MultiChain comment in the post above. Regards

Answer 2

So mining-requires-peers is not applied if there are less than two permissioned miners, and obviously this is inappropriate for a bitcoin-style blockchain where all mining is open. We'll fix this in the 1.0.1 release, which should come out around the end of this month.

Answer 3

This should be fixed in MultiChain 1.0.1 released today.