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Pieter Wuille
341735eb8f Headers-first synchronization
Many changes:
* Do not use 'getblocks', but 'getheaders', and use it to build a headers tree.
* Blocks are fetched in parallel from all available outbound peers, using a
  limited moving window. When one peer stalls the movement of the window, it is
  disconnected.
* No more orphan blocks. At all. We only ever request a block for which we have
  verified the headers, and store it to disk immediately. This means that a
  disk-fill attack would require PoW.
* Require protocol version 31800 for every peer (released in december 2010).
* No more syncnode (we sync from everyone we can, though limited to 1 during
  initial *headers* sync).
* Introduce some extra named constants, comments and asserts.
2014-10-14 15:42:01 -07:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
992ab87114
Merge pull request #4942
9406471 Write fee estimate and peers files only when initialized (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2014-10-14 11:35:17 +02:00
Cory Fields
eee030f6bc autofile: don't copy CAutoFile by value 2014-09-25 19:25:19 -04:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
94064710b9 Write fee estimate and peers files only when initialized
Fixes #4669.

Move the loading of addresses to StartNode() to make it more
self-contained.
2014-09-18 14:20:18 +02:00
Pieter Wuille
7388b74cd2
Merge pull request #4911
611116d header include cleanup (Philip Kaufmann)
2014-09-16 04:12:52 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
327dcfece7 Merge pull request #4869
6050ab6 netbase: Make SOCKS5 negotiation interruptible (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2014-09-15 17:25:12 +02:00
ENikS
ec91092df8
Fixing compiler warning C4101
Github-Pull: #4856
2014-09-15 14:35:32 +02:00
Philip Kaufmann
611116d4e3 header include cleanup
- ensures alphabetical ordering for includes etc. in source file headers
2014-09-14 12:43:56 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
d6af9856b0
Merge pull request #4878
540ac45 Avoid returning many "inv" orphans (Jeff Garzik)
d4168c8 Limit CNode::mapAskFor (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2014-09-10 16:52:57 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
6050ab6855 netbase: Make SOCKS5 negotiation interruptible
Avoids that SOCKS5 negotiation will hold up the shutdown process.

- Sockets can stay in non-blocking mode, no need to switch it on/off
  anymore
- Adds a timeout (20 seconds) on SOCK5 negotiation. This should be
  enough for even Tor to get a connection to a hidden service, and
  avoids blocking the opencon thread indefinitely on a hanging proxy.

Fixes #2954.
2014-09-10 11:33:13 +02:00
Philip Kaufmann
2c2cc5dac1
Remove some unnecessary c_strs() in logging and the GUI
Includes `core: remove unneeded c_str() / Qt: replace c_str() with Qt code`
by P. Kaufmann.
2014-09-09 11:31:17 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
d4168c82be Limit CNode::mapAskFor
Tighten resource constraints on CNode.
2014-09-09 09:19:15 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
65b529ba93
Merge pull request #4833
bbda402 net: Remove MilliSleep from StopNode (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2014-09-04 13:31:15 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
bbda40226b
net: Remove MilliSleep from StopNode
I don't understand why it would be there in the first place. This looks
like voodoo, not programming.
2014-09-03 12:23:34 +02:00
phantomcircuit
9189f5fe4d remove useless millisleep
reduces time to service requests improving performance
2014-09-02 21:25:53 -07:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
70352e11c0
Revert "Add a getutxos command to the p2p protocol. It allows querying of the UTXO set"
This reverts commit da2ec100f3.
2014-08-27 18:04:29 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
ad49c256c3 Split up util.cpp/h
Split up util.cpp/h into:

- string utilities (hex, base32, base64): no internal dependencies, no dependency on boost (apart from foreach)
- money utilities (parsesmoney, formatmoney)
- time utilities (gettime*, sleep, format date):
- and the rest (logging, argument parsing, config file parsing)

The latter is basically the environment and OS handling,
and is stripped of all utility functions, so we may want to
rename it to something else than util.cpp/h for clarity (Matt suggested
osinterface).

Breaks dependency of sha256.cpp on all the things pulled in by util.
2014-08-26 13:25:22 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
651480c8e4 move functions in main and net to implementation files 2014-08-26 13:25:21 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
11270ebde4
Merge pull request #4351
da2ec10 Add a getutxos command to the p2p protocol. It allows querying of the UTXO set given a set of outpoints. (Mike Hearn)
2014-08-25 10:37:40 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
04d6c7d10c
Merge pull request #4605
aa82795 Add detailed network info to getnetworkinfo RPC (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
075cf49 Add GetNetworkName function (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
c91a947 Add IsReachable(net) function (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
60dc8e4 Allow -onlynet=onion to be used (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2014-08-18 13:37:54 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
c33b983903
Don't poll showmyip.com, it doesn't exist anymore
Fixes #4679.

This leaves us with only one candidate, checkip.dyndns.org.
GetMyExternalIP should be phased out as soon as possible.
2014-08-13 12:00:30 +02:00
Mike Hearn
da2ec100f3 Add a getutxos command to the p2p protocol. It allows querying of the UTXO set
given a set of outpoints.
2014-08-11 13:59:47 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
c91a9471be Add IsReachable(net) function
Allows other parts of the program to query for reachable
status of a network. Similar to IsLimited(net).
2014-07-30 15:41:17 +02:00
Jeff Garzik
2e7009d67b Avoid querying DNS seeds, if we have open connections.
The goal is to increase independence and privacy.
2014-07-29 11:04:46 -04:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
c5eabde9ea
Merge pull request #4491
eaedb59 net: add SetSocketNonBlocking() as OS independent wrapper (Philip Kaufmann)
2014-07-28 14:05:54 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
3955c3940e
Merge pull request #4584
0430c30 Add missing FindNode prototype to net.h (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2014-07-25 11:06:11 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
0430c30af1 Add missing FindNode prototype to net.h
Also make the argument a const std::string & instead of pass-by-value.
2014-07-24 17:28:47 +02:00
Philip Kaufmann
f469f79ff8 remove an unneded .c_str() in OpenNetworkConnection() 2014-07-21 15:00:42 +02:00
Philip Kaufmann
c994d2e769 prevent SOCKET leak in BindListenPort()
- the call to CloseSocket() is placed after the WSAGetLastError(), because
  a CloseSocket() can trigger an error also, which we don't want for the
  logging in this two cases
2014-07-17 22:49:23 +02:00
Philip Kaufmann
eaedb59e05 net: add SetSocketNonBlocking() as OS independent wrapper 2014-07-17 22:12:44 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
43f510d37d Convert closesocket 'compat wrapper' to function in netbase
Simpler alternative to #4348.

The current setup with closesocket() is strange. It poses
as a compatibility wrapper but adds functionality.

Rename it and make it a documented utility function in netbase.

Code movement only, zero effect on the functionality.
2014-07-17 15:46:25 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
6513a9f703
Merge pull request #4400
4eedf4f make RandAddSeed() use OPENSSL_cleanse() (Philip Kaufmann)
6354935 move rand functions from util to new random.h/.cpp (Philip Kaufmann)
001a53d add GetRandBytes() as wrapper for RAND_bytes() (Philip Kaufmann)
2014-07-14 11:35:30 +02:00
Pieter Wuille
dc942e6f27 Introduce whitelisted peers.
This adds a -whitelist option to specify subnet ranges from which peers
that connect are whitelisted. In addition, there is a -whitebind option
which works like -bind, except peers connecting to it are also
whitelisted (allowing a separate listen port for trusted connections).

Being whitelisted has two effects (for now):
* They are immune to DoS disconnection/banning.
* Transactions they broadcast (which are valid) are always relayed,
  even if they were already in the mempool. This means that a node
  can function as a gateway for a local network, and that rebroadcasts
  from the local network will work as expected.

Whitelisting replaces the magic exemption localhost had for DoS
disconnection (local addresses are still never banned, though), which
implied hidden service connects (from a localhost Tor node) were
incorrectly immune to DoS disconnection as well. This old
behaviour is removed for that reason, but can be restored using
-whitelist=127.0.0.1 or -whitelist=::1 can be specified. -whitebind
is safer to use in case non-trusted localhost connections are expected
(like hidden services).
2014-07-09 20:40:14 +02:00
Philip Kaufmann
001a53d742 add GetRandBytes() as wrapper for RAND_bytes()
- add a small wrapper in util around RAND_bytes() and replace with
  GetRandBytes() in the code to log errors from calling RAND_bytes()
- remove OpenSSL header rand.h where no longer needed
2014-07-09 09:42:18 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
e1f7c7d173
Merge pull request #4472
9f4da19 Use pong receive time rather than processing time (Pieter Wuille)
2014-07-07 06:28:43 +02:00
Pieter Wuille
9f4da19bab Use pong receive time rather than processing time 2014-07-06 16:08:18 +02:00
R E Broadley
2e36866fec Show nodeid instead of addresses (for anonymity) unless otherwise requested. 2014-07-04 09:38:44 +07:00
Philip Kaufmann
5d59921237 add missing BOOST_FOREACH indentation in ThreadSocketHandler() 2014-06-26 11:01:24 +02:00
Philip Kaufmann
9e9ca2b671 small cleanup of #ifdefs in BindListenPort()
- SO_NOSIGPIPE isn't available on WIN32 so merge the 2 non-WIN32 blocks
- use predefined names from header for IPV6_PROTECTION_LEVEL and
  PROTECTION_LEVEL_UNRESTRICTED
2014-06-26 11:01:23 +02:00
Cory Fields
f3967bcc50 build: fix build weirdness after 54372482.
bitcoin-config.h moved, but the old file is likely to still exist when
reconfiguring or switching branches. This would've caused files to not rebuild
correctly, and other strange problems.

Make the path explicit so that the old one cannot be found.

Core libs use config/bitcoin-config.h.

Libs (like crypto) which don't want access to bitcoin's headers continue
to use -Iconfig and #include bitcoin-config.h.
2014-06-23 14:04:38 -04:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
52d4abfdef
Merge pull request #4388
3dc1464 add missing vhListenSocket.clear(); to CNetCleanup() (Philip Kaufmann)
2831a03 remove unused CNode::Cleanup() (Philip Kaufmann)
2014-06-23 10:21:38 +02:00
Pieter Wuille
d4e4e05435
Merge pull request #4309
d38da59 Code simplifications after CTransaction::GetHash() caching (Pieter Wuille)
4949004 Add CMutableTransaction and make CTransaction immutable. (Pieter Wuille)
2014-06-22 20:45:30 +02:00
Philip Kaufmann
3dc1464f0a add missing vhListenSocket.clear(); to CNetCleanup() 2014-06-22 14:52:38 +02:00
Philip Kaufmann
2831a03b79 remove unused CNode::Cleanup() 2014-06-22 14:51:38 +02:00
Pieter Wuille
d38da59bf6 Code simplifications after CTransaction::GetHash() caching 2014-06-22 00:06:17 +02:00
Pieter Wuille
806fd19ecb Allocate receive buffers in on the fly 2014-06-21 17:00:38 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
3f39b9d455
Merge pull request #2784
f1920e8 Ping automatically every 2 minutes (unconditionally) (Pieter Wuille)
2014-06-12 12:40:09 +02:00
Philip Kaufmann
634bd61b76 convert an if into an else if in OpenNetworkConnection() 2014-06-11 12:40:13 +02:00
Philip Kaufmann
5bd6c31bd6 small cleanup of net
- remove an unneded else in ConnectNode()
- make 0 a double and change to 0.0 in ConnectNode()
- rename strDest to pszDest in OpenNetworkConnection()
- remove an unneded call to our REF() macro in BindListenPort()
- small style cleanups and removal of unneeded new-lines
2014-06-11 12:38:31 +02:00
Pieter Wuille
f1920e8606 Ping automatically every 2 minutes (unconditionally)
... instead of after 30 minutes of no sending, for latency measurement
and keep-alive. Also, disconnect if no reply arrives within 20 minutes,
instead of 90 of inactivity (for peers supporting the 'pong' message).
2014-06-09 23:06:56 +02:00
Jeff Garzik
c79897af31 Merge pull request #4247 from Diapolo/listen
rename fNoListen to fListen and move to net
2014-06-04 15:00:38 -04:00
Huang Le
09a54a65c0 Use pnode->nLastRecv as sync score directly
NodeSyncScore() should find the node which we recv data most recently, so put a negative sign to pnode->nLastRecv is indeed wrong.

Also change the return value type to int64_t.

Signed-off-by: Huang Le <4tarhl@gmail.com>
2014-05-30 23:44:44 +08:00
Philip Kaufmann
53a088154c rename fNoListen to fListen and move to net
- better code readability and it belongs to net
- this is a prerequisite for a pull to add -listen to the GUI
2014-05-29 14:01:39 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
67f43a99ae
Merge pull request #4132
d4e1c61 add DEFAULT_UPNP constant in net (Philip Kaufmann)
2014-05-29 11:46:28 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
97b53b581b
Merge pull request #4152
3e8ac6a Replace non-threadsafe gmtime and setlocale (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
a60838d Replace non-threadsafe strerror (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2014-05-23 15:52:45 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
a60838d09a Replace non-threadsafe strerror
Log the name of the error as well as the error code if a network problem
happens. This makes network troubleshooting more convenient.

Use thread-safe strerror_r and the WIN32 equivalent FormatMessage.
2014-05-23 09:45:04 +02:00
Philip Kaufmann
d4e1c61212 add DEFAULT_UPNP constant in net
- as this is a shared Core/GUI setting, this makes it easier to keep them
  in sync (also no new includes are needed)
2014-05-20 15:34:19 +02:00
Cozz Lovan
b641c9cd21 Fix addnode "onetry": Connect with OpenNetworkConnection 2014-05-10 00:39:49 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
d387b8ec15 rpc: add getblockchaininfo and getnetworkinfo
Adds two new info query commands that take over information from
hodge-podge `getinfo`.

Also some new information is added:
- `getblockchaininfo`
  - `chain`: (string) current chain (main, testnet3, regtest)
  - `verificationprogress: (numeric) estimated verification progress
  - `chainwork`
- `getnetworkinfo`
  - `localaddresses`: (array) local addresses, from mapLocalHost (fixes #1734)
2014-05-06 09:34:54 +02:00
Philip Kaufmann
2fdd4c7933 better std::exception logging for CAddrDb
- also small logging text changes
2014-05-02 14:35:30 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
e27c4110d9 Remove build-time no-IPv6 setting
The year is 2014. All supported operating systems have IPv6 support,
most certainly at build time (this doesn't mean that IPv6 is configured,
of course).

If noone is exercising the functionality to disable it, that means it
doesn't get tested, and IMO it's better to get rid of it.

(it's also not used consistently in RPC/boost and Net code...)
2014-05-01 12:15:36 +02:00
Gregory Maxwell
d20791b0e5 Prevent socket leak in ThreadSocketHandler.
When we are over our outbound limit ThreadSocketHandler would try to
 keep the connection if the peer was addnoded.

This didn't actually work for two reasons: It didn't actually run
 the accept code due to mistaken code flow, and because we have a
 limited number of outbound semaphores it couldn't actually use the
 connection.

Instead it leaked the socket, which might have caused issue #4034.

This patch just takes out the non-functioning white-listing for now.
2014-04-09 09:30:36 -07:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
ebb783a9f2
Merge pull request #3603
a486abd replace custom GetFilesize() with boost::filesystem::file_size() (Philip Kaufmann)
2014-03-27 11:38:34 +01:00
Michagogo
d30d379beb Slightly tweak error when unable to bind port
A slight improvement over 2d2d8fae3d -- we don't know that it's the daemon, it could be the GUI.
2014-03-05 18:25:35 +02:00
paveljanik
2d2d8fae3d Clarify the error message when unable to bind to port 2014-03-05 10:42:52 +01:00
paveljanik
094eeff0ba Bitcoin is running fine...
When bitcoind can't bind, bitcoin server (or Bitcoin Core Daemon) is probably already running. Add the missing word "server". Bitcoin itself is definitely running ;-)

Add _(...) so the string can be localized.

I apologize for such trivial changes, learning github interface.
2014-03-05 00:02:18 +01:00
Philip Kaufmann
a486abd419 replace custom GetFilesize() with boost::filesystem::file_size() 2014-03-03 22:33:09 +01:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
f48742c2bf Get rid of C99 PRI?64 usage in source files
Amend to d5f1e72. It turns out that BerkelyDB was including inttypes.h
indirectly, so we cannot fix this with just macros.

Trivial commit: apply the following script to all .cpp and .h files:

    # Middle
    sed -i 's/"PRIx64"/x/g' "$1"
    sed -i 's/"PRIu64"/u/g' "$1"
    sed -i 's/"PRId64"/d/g' "$1"
    # Initial
    sed -i 's/PRIx64"/"x/g' "$1"
    sed -i 's/PRIu64"/"u/g' "$1"
    sed -i 's/PRId64"/"d/g' "$1"
    # Trailing
    sed -i 's/"PRIx64/x"/g' "$1"
    sed -i 's/"PRIu64/u"/g' "$1"
    sed -i 's/"PRId64/d"/g' "$1"

After this commit, `git grep` for PRI.64 should turn up nothing except
the defines in util.h.
2014-02-24 09:08:56 +01:00
gubatron
57702541a2 Copyright header updates s/2013/2014 on files whose last git commit was done in 2014.
contrib/devtools/fix-copyright-headers.py script to be able to perform this maintenance task with ease during the rest of the year, every year. Modifications to contrib/devtools/README.md to document what fix-copyright-headers.py does.
2014-02-09 21:06:06 -05:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
7d9d134bf9 Remove redundant .c_str()s
After the tinyformat switch sprintf() family functions support passing
actual std::string objects.

Remove unnecessary c_str calls (236 of them) in logging and formatting.
2014-01-23 16:05:01 +01:00
Thomas Holenstein
df840de5da
Make bitcoin compile without wallet if "db_cxx.h" is not present
Moved includes of "db.h" into #ifdef ENABLE_WALLET blocks or remove
them.
2013-12-19 10:46:41 +01:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
7266bb1bdc
Merge pull request #3373
80ecf67 Add ThreadGetMyExternalIP to net thread group (Gavin Andresen)
2013-12-09 12:27:59 +01:00
Gavin Andresen
80ecf6702a Add ThreadGetMyExternalIP to net thread group
Fixes #3372 -- crash at shutdown.
2013-12-09 14:10:10 +10:00
Pieter Wuille
b2864d2fb3 Add main-specific node state 2013-12-08 14:51:37 +01:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
d004d7279f Move CAddrDB frrom db to net
This was a leftover from the times in which
peers.dat depended in BDB.

Other functions in db.cpp still depend on BerkelyDB,
to be able to compile without BDB this (small)
functionality needs to be moved to another file.
2013-12-04 12:46:13 +01:00
Mike Hearn
a946aa8d3e Store and use a sanitized subVer 2013-11-26 13:26:00 +01:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
d980f9b7d6
Merge pull request #3257
379778b core: remove includes in .cpp, if header is already in .h (Philip Kaufmann)
2013-11-20 16:18:33 +01:00
Philip Kaufmann
fabba0e6cc orphan spaces cleanup ;-) 2013-11-15 12:24:34 +01:00
Philip Kaufmann
379778bde6 core: remove includes in .cpp, if header is already in .h
- example: if util.h includes stdint.h, remove it from util.cpp, as
  util.h is the first header included in util.cpp
2013-11-15 12:20:16 +01:00
Brandon Dahler
51ed9ec971 Cleanup code using forward declarations.
Use misc methods of avoiding unnecesary header includes.
Replace int typedefs with int##_t from stdint.h.
Replace PRI64[xdu] with PRI[xdu]64 from inttypes.h.
Normalize QT_VERSION ifs where possible.
Resolve some indirect dependencies as direct ones.
Remove extern declarations from .cpp files.
2013-11-10 09:36:28 -06:00
Patrick Strateman
75ef87dd93 process received messages one at a time without sleeping between messages 2013-11-03 20:25:50 -08:00
Gavin Andresen
9038b18f46 -fuzzmessagestest=N : randomly corrupt 1-of-N sent messages
I needed this to test the new "reject" p2p message, but it should be generally
useful for fuzz-testing network message handling code.
2013-10-29 11:20:14 +10:00
Josh Lehan
547c61f8d8 Adding new "addrlocal" field to RPC getpeerinfo.
The existing CNode::addrLocal member is revealed to the user,
as an address string, similar to the existing "addr" field.
Instead of showing garbage or empty string,
it simply will not appear in the output if local address not known yet.
2013-10-21 02:23:05 -07:00
Gavin Andresen
749230d05c Merge pull request #2840 from sipa/nosendlock
Allow SendMessages to run partially without cs_main
2013-10-20 19:06:53 -07:00
Pieter Wuille
9b1200c23b
Merge pull request #3119
db0e8cc Bump Year Number to 2013 (super3)
2013-10-20 22:25:44 +02:00
super3
db0e8ccd90 Bump Year Number to 2013 2013-10-20 15:25:06 -04:00
Pieter Wuille
49d754d915 Run node deletions outside of cs_vNodes 2013-10-15 22:34:25 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
f0c25cf6ec Merge pull request #2924 from sje397/TrafficGraph
[QT] Add network traffic graph to debug window
2013-10-15 03:48:22 -07:00
Gavin Andresen
b9beea6e9d Merge pull request #3077 from sipa/chain
Refactor/encapsulate chain globals into a CChain class
2013-10-14 20:39:00 -07:00
Scott Ellis
ce14345a89 Add network traffic graph 2013-10-14 19:02:03 +11:00
Pieter Wuille
4c6d41b8b6 Refactor/encapsulate chain globals into a CChain class 2013-10-11 23:25:50 +02:00
Josh Lehan
971bb3e901 Added ping time measurement.
New RPC "ping" command to request ping.
Implemented "pong" message handler.
New "pingtime" field in getpeerinfo, to provide results to user.
New "pingwait" field, to show pings still in flight, to better see newly lagging peers.
2013-10-04 01:30:12 -07:00
Gavin Andresen
881a85a22d Replace printf with LogPrintf / LogPrint 2013-09-18 20:39:25 +10:00
Cory Fields
35b8af9226 autotools: switch to autotools buildsystem 2013-09-05 21:31:03 -04:00
Jeff Garzik
3d86e7cd48 Merge pull request #2618 from fcicq/solaris-support
Partial solaris support
2013-08-24 20:19:24 -07:00
Gavin Andresen
050d2e953f Remove #define loop from util.h
Replace the loop macro with while (true). The #define caused
problems for Qt.
2013-07-31 14:06:44 +10:00
fcicq
98148a713e Fix fcntl include in net.cpp & netbase.cpp 2013-07-17 16:51:40 +08:00
Philip Kaufmann
b3e0aaf36e fix invalid conversion error with MinGW 4.8.1 in net.cpp
- fixes src\net.cpp:1601: Error:invalid conversion from 'void*' to
  'const char*' [-fpermissive] in a setsockopt() call on Win32 that was
  found by using MinGW 4.8.1 compiler suite
2013-07-13 13:05:04 +02:00
Pieter Wuille
c43da3f183 Dump addresses every 15 minutes instead of 10 seconds 2013-06-24 11:48:14 +02:00
Mike Hearn
0e4b317555 Introduce a CChainParameters singleton class and regtest mode.
The new class is accessed via the Params() method and holds
most things that vary between main, test and regtest networks.
The regtest mode has two purposes, one is to run the
bitcoind/bitcoinj comparison tool which compares two separate
implementations of the Bitcoin protocol looking for divergence.

The other is that when run, you get a local node which can mine
a single block instantly, which is highly convenient for testing
apps during development as there's no need to wait 10 minutes for
a block on the testnet.
2013-06-19 16:28:52 +02:00