This post is for informational purposes and Mirrornet operations coordination, intended for witnesses and developers who want to use the test environment.

Mirrornet/Fakenet?

Please refer to my previous posts if you are unfamiliar with what the Mirrornet/Fakenet is.
I strongly recommend reading them before doing anything involving the Hive Mirrornet. I don’t want to repeat what was written, and some of the information may be obsolete since it relates to previous instances that ran a long time ago. However, you can still gain a better understanding of what it’s all about.

• 2022-04-30 Hive Mirrornet (a.k.a. Fakenet) is up and running!
• 2022-08-05 Preparing Hive Mirrornet (a.k.a. fakenet) for the release candidate testing
• 2022-08-20 Full Public Fake/Mirror API [WIP]
• 2023-10-14 Mirror, Mirror on the Hive

Breaking the mirror (reasonable efforts to keep it running)

For simplicity and to save resources, etc., I’m not providing high availability for the mirror, but I try to keep it running most of the time.
An old instance that was started in 2023 is shutting down right now.
I’m keeping the old chain-id for simplicity (and because I like it). The skeleton key will also be the same.

Work in Progress

As always, I’ll use this post for on-chain coordination of Mirrornet setup and related tasks.
There’s a long way from starting with block conversion and initial deployment, to setting up witnesses, initiating the first production, and then adding required components.
At the end of this route is a distributed set of mirror block producers and a fully functional, public fake/mirror API node.

Changelog

• Current develop (equivalent to the upcoming 1.27.8 release) was used to create Mirrornet binaries
• Mainnet block_log up to block 92500000 was “mirrored”
• Initial replay of consensus node was created
• Snapshot was created for quick deployment
• Old mirrornet instance was shut down
  2025-01-19T08:59:35.776093 p2p_plugin.cpp:199 handle_block ] Got 13 transactions on block 92406742 by gtg -- Block Time Offset: -223 ms
• New mirrornet produced first block
  2025-01-19T22:31:02.601414 p2p_plugin.cpp:579 broadcast_block ] Broadcasting block #92500001 with 0 transactions
• Live (node based) conversion from mainnet started, transactions from roughly 90k blocks to catch up
  Block stats:{"num":92500131,"lib":92500131,"type":"gen","id":"058370a3c8f749627a7bc0ca9eac0454cdbbb1ed","ts":"2025-01-19T22:37:45","bp":"gtg","txs":1589,"size":298410,"offset":-200833,"before":{"inc":1733,"ok":1589,"auth":0,"rc":0},"after":{"exp":0,"fail":0,"appl":0,"post":0,"drop":0,"size":0},"exec":{"offset":-399982,"pre":14,"work":199135,"post":40604,"all":239753}}
• Mirrornet API node operational
  hivemind-block-processing-1 | INFO - hive.indexer.sync:185 - [SINGLE] Current system time: 2025-01-25 06:05:14.471

By the way, if you aren’t a developer or witness, and are close to being bored to death by this post, here’s an absolutely unrelated, random YouTube video featuring John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, and Hive.