Now that btcd support CPU mining, update the getgenerate, setgenerate,
gethashespersec, and getmininginfo RPC handlers to return the appropriate
information.
Also, remove the various extra help addenda about btcd not supporting
mining since it is no longer true.
This commit implements a built-in concurrent CPU miner that can be enabled
with the combination of the --generate and --miningaddr options. The
--blockminsize, --blockmaxsize, and --blockprioritysize configuration
options wich already existed prior to this commit control the block
template generation and hence affect blocks mined via the new CPU miner.
The following is a quick overview of the changes and design:
- Starting btcd with --generate and no addresses specified via
--miningaddr will give an error and exit immediately
- Makes use of multiple worker goroutines which independently create block
templates, solve them, and submit the solved blocks
- The default number of worker threads are based on the number of
processor cores in the system and can be dynamically changed at
run-time
- There is a separate speed monitor goroutine used to collate periodic
updates from the workers to calculate overall hashing speed
- The current mining state, number of workers, and hashes per second can
be queried
- Updated sample-btcd.conf file has been updated to include the coin
generation (mining) settings
- Updated doc.go for the new command line options
In addition the old --getworkkey option is now deprecated in favor of the
new --miningaddr option. This was changed for a few reasons:
- There is no reason to have a separate list of keys for getwork and CPU
mining
- getwork is deprecated and will be going away in the future so that means
the --getworkkey flag will also be going away
- Having the work 'key' in the option can be confused with wanting a
private key while --miningaddr make it a little more clear it is an
address that is required
Closes#137.
Reviewed by @jrick.
in go-flags/ini_private.go in function readIni there is no mechanism for
adding inline comments. Only comments that have a semicolon as the first
non-whitespace character are ignored.
According to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file#Comments
inline comments are not universally supported.
This change adds some white space for readability, but
name := strings.TrimSpace(line[1 : len(line)-1]) removes accidental whitespace
left in later.
Closes#135.
Also, since the new websoscket package allows the message type to be set
independently from the type of the variable, remove the casts between
strings and []byte in the websocket read/write paths. This avoids extra
copies thereby reducing the garbage generated.
Closes#134.
This commit resolves an issue where it was possible the block manager
could hang on shutdown due to inventory rebroadcasting. In particular, it
adds checks to prevent modification of the of rebroadcast inventory during
shutdown and adds a drain on the channel to ensure any outstanding
messages are discarded.
Found by @dajohi who also provided some of the code.
This commit helps prevent transaction malleability by enforcing that the
extra dummy value on multisig transaction script contains no data for a
transaction . This syncs with a recent change in Bitcoin Core to remain
compatible.
As part of this change a new constant has been introduced which is used to
specify the script flags which are used for standard transactions. This
constant is then used in both the memory pool and the mining code to
ensure they remain in sync with one another.
Closes#131.
ok @jrick, @dajohi
This flag works similar to the existing --testnet flag does. That is to
say it selects the default simulation test network RPC port for either
btcd or btcwallet depending on whether or not the --wallet flag is also
present.
This commit, along with recent commits to btcnet and btcwire, expose a new
network that is intended to provide a private network useful for
simulation testing. To that end, it has the special property that it has
no DNS seeds and will actively ignore all addr and getaddr messages. It
will also not try to connect to any nodes other than those specified via
--connect. This allows the network to remain private to the specific
nodes involved in the testing and not simply become another public
testnet.
The network difficulty is also set extremely low like the regression test
network so blocks can be created extremely quickly without requiring a lot
of hashing power.
This commit raises the maximum allowed size for a standard signature
script to cover a 15-of-15 multi-signature pay-to-script-hash with
compressed pubkeys.
This mirrors a recent change to remain compatible with Bitcoin Core.
ok @owinga who also helped verify and correct the script math.
Closes#128.
This change modifies the params struct to embed a *btcnet.Params,
removing the old parameter fields that are handled by the btcnet
package.
Hardcoded network checks have also been removed in favor of modifying
behavior based on the current active net's parameters.
Not all library packages, notable btcutil and btcchain, have been
updated to use btcnet yet, but with this change, each package can be
updated one at a time since the active net's btcnet.Params are
available at each callsite.
ok @davecgh
Ordinarily, getwork will return an error if btcd is not connected to any
other peers. This commit relaxes that requirement when running in
regression test mode since it is useful for development purposes.
While here, also improve check which returns an error from getwork is not
current to exclude the check when the best chain height is zero since the
code never believes it is current when at height 0.
Along the same lines as the previous commit, the RPCs that return
serialized data structures should use the max protocol version btcd
supports as opposed to the maximum protocol version etcwire supports.
The getinfo RPC should return the max protocol version btcd supports as
opposed to the maximum protocol version btcwire supports. Currently they
are both the same value, so there is no issue. However, they will not
always be the same.
This commit updates the block manager's local chain state when a block
processed by submitting it directly to the block manager as opposed to
only when it comes from the network.
Also, it modifies the submitblock RPC to use the concurrent safe block
manager process block instead of the unsafe btcchain version.
The combination of these two fixes ensure the internal block manager chain
state is properly synced with the actual btcchain state regardless of how
blocks are added.
