Mempool requests use a fair amount of bandwidth when the mempool is large,
disconnecting peers using them follows the same logic as disconnecting
peers fetching historical blocks.
aa4b0c2 When not filtering blocks, getdata sends more in one test (Pieter Wuille)
d41e44c Actually only use filterInventoryKnown with MSG_TX inventory messages. (Gregory Maxwell)
b6a0da4 Only use filterInventoryKnown with MSG_TX inventory messages. (Patick Strateman)
6b84935 Rename setInventoryKnown filterInventoryKnown (Patick Strateman)
e206724 Remove mruset as it is no longer used. (Gregory Maxwell)
ec73ef3 Replace setInventoryKnown with a rolling bloom filter. (Gregory Maxwell)
One test in AcceptToMemoryPool was to compare a transaction's fee
agains the value returned by GetMinRelayFee. This value was zero for
all small transactions. For larger transactions (between
DEFAULT_BLOCK_PRIORITY_SIZE and MAX_STANDARD_TX_SIZE), this function
was preventing low fee transactions from ever being accepted.
With this function removed, we will now allow transactions in that range
with fees (including modifications via PrioritiseTransaction) below
the minRelayTxFee, provided that they have sufficient priority.
Redo the feerate index to be based on mining score, rather than fee.
Update mempool_packages.py to test prioritisetransaction's effect on
package scores.
- Add new translations (finally, after a long time)
- update-translation script was not considering new translations - oops
- fixed this, also remove (nearly) empty translations
- Update translation process, it was still describing the old repository
structure
Use the score index on the mempool to only add sorted txs in order. Remove much of the validation while building the block, relying on mempool to be consistent and only contain txs that can be mined.
The mempool is assumed to be consistent as far as not containing txs which spend non-existent outputs or double spends, and scripts are valid. Finality of txs is still checked (except not coinbase maturity, assumed in mempool).
Still TestBlockValidity in case mempool consistency breaks and return error state if an invalid block was created.
Unit tests are modified to realize that invalid blocks can now be constructed if the mempool breaks its consistency assumptions and also updated to have the right fees, since the cached value is now used for block construction.
Conflicts:
src/miner.cpp
The score index is meant to represent the order of priority for being included in a block for miners. Initially this is set to the transactions modified (by any feeDelta) fee rate. Index improvements and unit tests by sdaftuar.
Store sum of legacy and P2SH sig op counts. This is calculated in AcceptToMemory pool and storing it saves redoing the expensive calculation in block template creation.
But keep translating them in the GUI.
This - necessarily - requires duplication of a few messages.
Alternative take on #7134, that keeps the translations from being wiped.
Also document GetWarnings() input argument.
Fixes#5895.
ff723da [Qt] improve minimum absolute fee option - Only display the minimum absolute fee control if CoinControl is enabled (Jonas Schnelli)
31b508a [Qt] make use of the nMinimumTotalFee (absolute) in coincontrols fee calculation (Jonas Schnelli)
80462dd [Qt] use ASYMP_UTF8 (≈) whenever we show a fee that is not absolute (Jonas Schnelli)
ecc7c82 Move fPayAtLeastCustomFee function to CC (Pieter Wuille)
ebb25f4 Limit setAskFor and retire requested entries only when a getdata returns. (Gregory Maxwell)
5029698 prevent peer flooding request queue for an inv (kazcw)
Make RPC tests have a default block priority size of 50000 (the old default) so we can still use free transactions in RPC tests. When priority is eliminated, we will have to make a different change if we want to continue allowing free txs.
9af5f9c Move uiInterface.NotifyBlockTip signal above the core/wallet signal - This will keep getbestblockhash more in sync with blocknotify callbacks (Jonas Schnelli)
4082e46 [Qt] call GuessVerificationProgress synchronous during core signal, pass double over UI signal (Jonas Schnelli)
947d20b [Qt] reduce cs_main in getVerificationProgress() (Jonas Schnelli)
e6d50fc [Qt] update block tip (height and date) without locking cs_main, update always (each block) (Jonas Schnelli)
012fc91 NotifyBlockTip signal: switch from hash (uint256) to CBlockIndex* - also adds a boolean for indication if the tip update was happening during initial sync - emit notification also during initial sync (Jonas Schnelli)
Mruset setInventoryKnown was reduced to a remarkably small 1000
entries as a side effect of sendbuffer size reductions in 2012.
This removes setInventoryKnown filtering from merkleBlock responses
because false positives there are especially unattractive and
also because I'm not sure if there aren't race conditions around
the relay pool that would cause some transactions there to
be suppressed. (Also, ProcessGetData was accessing
setInventoryKnown without taking the required lock.)
This replaces using inv messages to announce new blocks, when a peer requests
(via the new "sendheaders" message) that blocks be announced with headers
instead of inv's.
Since headers-first was introduced, peers send getheaders messages in response
to an inv, which requires generating a block locator that is large compared to
the size of the header being requested, and requires an extra round-trip before
a reorg can be relayed. Save time by tracking headers that a peer is likely to
know about, and send a headers chain that would connect to a peer's known
headers, unless the chain would be too big, in which case we revert to sending
an inv instead.
Based off of @sipa's commit to announce all blocks in a reorg via inv,
which has been squashed into this commit.
Rebased-by: Pieter Wuille
This allows for much finer control of the transaction fees per kilobyte
as it prevent small transactions using a fee that is more appropriate
for one that is of a kilobyte.
This also allows controlling the fee per kilobyte over rpc such that:
bitcoin-cli settxfee `bitcoin-cli estimatefee 2`
would make sense, while currently it grossly fails often by a factor of x3
For each 'bit' in the filter we really maintain 2 bits, which store either:
0: not set
1-3: set in generation N
After (nElements / 2) insertions, we switch to a new generation, and wipe
entries which already had the new generation number, effectively switching
from the last 1.5 * nElements set to the last 1.0 * nElements set.
This is 25% more space efficient than the previous implementation, and can
(at peak) store 1.5 times the requested amount of history (though only
1.0 times the requested history is guaranteed).
The existing unit tests should be sufficient.
This switches the Merkle tree logic for blocks to one that runs in constant (small) space.
The old code is moved to tests, and a new test is added that for various combinations of
block sizes, transaction positions to compute a branch for, and mutations:
* Verifies that the old code and new code agree for the Merkle root.
* Verifies that the old code and new code agree for the Merkle branch.
* Verifies that the computed Merkle branch is valid.
* Verifies that mutations don't change the Merkle root.
* Verifies that mutations are correctly detected.
a46f87f Initialize logging before we do parameter interaction (Jonas Schnelli)
df66147 Move -blocksonly parameter interaction to the new ParameterInteraction() function (Jonas Schnelli)
68354e7 [QT] Call inits parameter interaction before we create the options model (Jonas Schnelli)
411b05a Refactor parameter interaction, call it before AppInit2() (Jonas Schnelli)
This makes sure that retransmits by a whitelisted peer also actually
result in a retransmit.
Further, this changes the logic to never relay in case we would assign
a DoS score, as we expect to get DoS banned ourselves as a result.
Adds 127.0.0.1:9050 for the .onion proxy if we can succesfully connect
to the control port.
Natural followup to creating hidden services automatically.
Previously all of these functions could return negative values (for different
readons). Large portions of the codebase currently assume that these
functions return positive values.
Previously peers which implement a protocol version less than NO_BLOOM_VERSION
would not be disconnected for sending a filter command, regardless of the
peerbloomfilter option.
Many node operators do not wish to provide expensive bloom filtering for SPV
clients, previously they had to cherry pick the commit which enabled the
disconnect logic.
The default should remain false until a sufficient percent of SPV clients
have updated.
1) Chainparams: Explicit CChainParams arg for main:
-AcceptBlock
-AcceptBlockHeader
-ActivateBestChain
-ConnectTip
-InitBlockIndex
-LoadExternalBlockFile
-VerifyDB parametric constructor
2) Also pickup more Params()\. in main.cpp
3) Pass nPruneAfterHeight explicitly to new FindFilesToPrune() in main.cpp
The setAskFor duplicate elimination was too eager and removed entries
when we still had no getdata response, allowing the peer to keep
INVing and not responding.
mapAlreadyAskedFor does not keep track of which peer has a request queued for a
particular tx. As a result, a peer can blind a node to a tx indefinitely by
sending many invs for the same tx, and then never replying to getdatas for it.
Each inv received will be placed 2 minutes farther back in mapAlreadyAskedFor,
so a short message containing 10 invs would render that tx unavailable for 20
minutes.
This is fixed by disallowing a peer from having more than one entry for a
particular inv in mapAlreadyAskedFor at a time.
80ae230 Improve log messages for blocks only violations. (Patick Strateman)
08843ed Add relaytxes status to getpeerinfo (Peter Todd)
d8aaa51 Bail early in processing transactions in blocks only mode. (Patick Strateman)
3587f6a Fix relay mechanism for whitelisted peers under blocks only mode. (Patick Strateman)
6531f17 Add mediantime field to getblock and getblockheader (Peter Todd)
7259769 Document new mediantime field in getblockchaininfo (Peter Todd)
c277a63 Clarify nLockTime-by-time comment in CheckFinalTx() (Peter Todd)
748321e Add mediantime field to getblockchaininfo RPC call (Peter Todd)
Previously in blocks only mode all inv messages where type!=MSG_BLOCK would be
rejected without regard for whitelisting or whitelistalwaysrelay.
As such whitelisted peers would never send the transaction (which would be
processed).
Compute the value of inputs that already are in the chain at time of mempool entry and only increase priority due to aging for those inputs. This effectively changes the CTxMemPoolEntry's GetPriority calculation from an upper bound to a lower bound.
It's possible coins with the same hash exist when you create a duplicate coinbase, so previously we were reading from the database to make sure we had the old coins cached so if we were to spend the new ones, the old ones would also be spent. This pull instead just marks the new coins as not fresh if they are from a coinbase, so if they are spent they will be written all the way down to the database anyway overwriting any duplicates.
Previously it would break if you flushed a parent cache while there was a child cache referring to it. This change will allow the flushing of parent caches.
1cf3dd8 Add unit test for UpdateCoins (Alex Morcos)
03c8282 Make CCoinsViewTest behave like CCoinsViewDB (Alex Morcos)
14470f9 ModifyNewCoins saves database lookups (Alex Morcos)
This provides more conservative estimates and reacts more quickly to a backlog.
Unfortunately the unit test for fee estimation depends on the success threshold (and the decay) chosen; also modify the unit test for the new default success thresholds.
These are more useful fee and priority estimation functions. If there is no fee/pri high enough for the target you are aiming for, it will give you the estimate for the lowest target that you can reliably obtain. This is better than defaulting to the minimum. It will also pass back the target for which it returned an answer.
bbf49da Fix comment for blocksonly parameter interactions (Patick Strateman)
6a4982f Fix fRelayTxs comment (Patick Strateman)
59441a0 Display DEFAULT_WHITELISTALWAYSRELAY in help text (Patick Strateman)
71a2683 Use DEFAULT_BLOCKSONLY and DEFAULT_WHITELISTALWAYSRELAY constants (Patick Strateman)
762b13b Add help text for blocksonly and whitelistalwaysrelay (Patick Strateman)
3a96497 Add whitelistalwaysrelay option (Patick Strateman)
420fa81 Do not process tx inv's in blocksonly mode (Patick Strateman)
4044f07 Add blocksonly mode (Patick Strateman)
Useful now that BIP113 is enforced for transactions entering the
mempool. Was previously only (indirectly) available by calling
getblocktemplate, a relatively expensive RPC call.
This continues/fixes #6719.
`event_base_loopbreak` was not doing what I expected it to, at least in
libevent 2.0.21.
What I expected was that it sets a timeout, given that no other pending
events it would exit in N seconds. However, what it does was delay the
event loop exit with 10 seconds, even if nothing is pending.
Solve it in a different way: give the event loop thread time to exit
out of itself, and if it doesn't, send loopbreak.
This speeds up the RPC tests a lot, each exit incurred a 10 second
overhead, with this change there should be no shutdown overhead in the
common case and up to two seconds if the event loop is blocking.
As a bonus this breaks dependency on boost::thread_group, as the HTTP
server minds its own offspring.
2bfb82b Merge pull request #351
06aeea5 Turn secp256k1_ec_pubkey_serialize outlen to in/out
970164d Merge pull request #348
6466625 Improvements for coordinate decompression
e2100ad Merge pull request #347
8e48787 Change secp256k1_ec_pubkey_combine's count argument to size_t.
c69dea0 Clear output in more cases for pubkey_combine, adds tests.
269d422 Comment copyediting.
b4d17da Merge pull request #344
4709265 Merge pull request #345
26abce7 Adds 32 static test vectors for scalar mul, sqr, inv.
5b71a3f Better error case handling for pubkey_create & pubkey_serialize, more tests.
3b7bc69 Merge pull request #343
eed87af Change contrib/laxder from headers-only to files compilable as standalone C
d7eb1ae Merge pull request #342
7914a6e Make lax_der_privatekey_parsing.h not depend on internal code
73f64ff Merge pull request #339
9234391 Overhaul flags handling
1a36898 Make flags more explicit, add runtime checks.
1a3e03a Merge pull request #340
96be204 Add additional tests for eckey and arg-checks.
bb5aa4d Make the tweak function zeroize-output-on-fail behavior consistent.
4a243da Move secp256k1_ec_privkey_import/export to contrib.
1b3efc1 Move secp256k1_ecdsa_sig_recover into the recovery module.
e3cd679 Eliminate all side-effects from VERIFY_CHECK() usage.
b30fc85 Avoid nonce_function_rfc6979 algo16 argument emulation.
70d4640 Make secp256k1_ec_pubkey_create skip processing invalid secret keys.
6c476a8 Minor comment improvements.
131afe5 Merge pull request #334
0c6ab2f Introduce explicit lower-S normalization
fea19e7 Add contrib/lax_der_parsing.h
3bb9c44 Rewrite ECDSA signature parsing code
fa57f1b Use secp256k1_rand_int and secp256k1_rand_bits more
49b3749 Add new tests for the extra testrand functions
f684d7d Faster secp256k1_rand_int implementation
251b1a6 Improve testrand: add extra random functions
31994c8 Merge pull request #338
f79aa88 Bugfix: swap arguments to noncefp
c98df26 Merge pull request #319
67f7da4 Extensive interface and operations tests for secp256k1_ec_pubkey_parse.
ee2cb40 Add ARG_CHECKs to secp256k1_ec_pubkey_parse/secp256k1_ec_pubkey_serialize
7450ef1 Merge pull request #328
68a3c76 Merge pull request #329
98135ee Merge pull request #332
37100d7 improve ECDH header-doc
b13d749 Fix couple of typos in API comments
7c823e3 travis: fixup module configs
cc3141a Merge pull request #325
ee58fae Merge pull request #326
213aa67 Do not force benchmarks to be statically linked.
338fc8b Add API exports to secp256k1_nonce_function_default and secp256k1_nonce_function_rfc6979.
52fd03f Merge pull request #320
9f6993f Remove some dead code.
357f8cd Merge pull request #314
118cd82 Use explicit symbol visibility.
4e64608 Include public module headers when compiling modules.
1f41437 Merge pull request #316
fe0d463 Merge pull request #317
cfe0ed9 Fix miscellaneous style nits that irritate overactive static analysis.
2b199de Use the explicit NULL macro for pointer comparisons.
9e90516 Merge pull request #294
dd891e0 Get rid of _t as it is POSIX reserved
201819b Merge pull request #313
912f203 Eliminate a few unbraced statements that crept into the code.
eeab823 Merge pull request #299
486b9bb Use a flags bitfield for compressed option to secp256k1_ec_pubkey_serialize and secp256k1_ec_privkey_export
05732c5 Callback data: Accept pointers to either const or non-const data
1973c73 Bugfix: Reinitialise buffer lengths that have been used as outputs
788038d Use size_t for lengths (at least in external API)
c9d7c2a secp256k1_context_set_{error,illegal}_callback: Restore default handler by passing NULL as function argument
9aac008 secp256k1_context_destroy: Allow NULL argument as a no-op
64b730b secp256k1_context_create: Use unsigned type for flags bitfield
cb04ab5 Merge pull request #309
a551669 Merge pull request #295
81e45ff Update group_impl.h
85e3a2c Merge pull request #112
b2eb63b Merge pull request #293
dc0ce9f [API BREAK] Change argument order to out/outin/in
6d947ca Merge pull request #298
c822693 Merge pull request #301
6d04350 Merge pull request #303
7ab311c Merge pull request #304
5fb3229 Fixes a bug where bench_sign would fail due to passing in too small a buffer.
263dcbc remove unused assignment
b183b41 bugfix: "ARG_CHECK(ctx != NULL)" makes no sense
6da1446 build: fix parallel build
5eb4356 Merge pull request #291
c996d53 Print success
9f443be Move pubkey recovery code to separate module
d49abbd Separate ECDSA recovery tests
439d34a Separate recoverable and normal signatures
a7b046e Merge pull request #289
f66907f Improve/reformat API documentation secp256k1.h
2f77487 Add context building benchmarks
cc623d5 Merge pull request #287
de7e398 small typo fix
9d96e36 Merge pull request #280
432e1ce Merge pull request #283
14727fd Use correct name in gitignore
356b0e9 Actually test static precomputation in Travis
ff3a5df Merge pull request #284
2587208 Merge pull request #212
a5a66c7 Add support for custom EC-Schnorr-SHA256 signatures
d84a378 Merge pull request #252
72ae443 Improve perf. of cmov-based table lookup
92e53fc Implement endomorphism optimization for secp256k1_ecmult_const
ed35d43 Make `secp256k1_scalar_add_bit` conditional; make `secp256k1_scalar_split_lambda_var` constant time
91c0ce9 Add benchmarks for ECDH and const-time multiplication
0739bbb Add ECDH module which works by hashing the output of ecmult_const
4401500 Add constant-time multiply `secp256k1_ecmult_const` for ECDH
e4ce393 build: fix hard-coded usage of "gen_context"
b8e39ac build: don't use BUILT_SOURCES for the static context header
baa75da tests: add a couple tests
ae4f0c6 Merge pull request #278
995c548 Introduce callback functions for dealing with errors.
c333074 Merge pull request #282
18c329c Remove the internal secp256k1_ecdsa_sig_t type
74a2acd Add a secp256k1_ecdsa_signature_t type
23cfa91 Introduce secp256k1_pubkey_t type
4c63780 Merge pull request #269
3e6f1e2 Change rfc6979 implementation to be a generic PRNG
ed5334a Update configure.ac to make it build on OpenBSD
1b68366 Merge pull request #274
a83bb48 Make ecmult static precomputation default
166b32f Merge pull request #276
c37812f Add gen_context src/ecmult_static_context.h to CLEANFILES to fix distclean.
125c15d Merge pull request #275
76f6769 Fix build with static ecmult altroot and make dist.
5133f78 Merge pull request #254
b0a60e6 Merge pull request #258
733c1e6 Add travis build to test the static context.
fbecc38 Add ability to use a statically generated ecmult context.
4fb174d Merge pull request #263
4ab8990 Merge pull request #270
bdf0e0c Merge pull request #271
31d0c1f Merge pull request #273
eb2c8ff Add missing casts to SECP256K1_FE_CONST_INNER
55399c2 Further performance improvements to _ecmult_wnaf
99fd963 Add secp256k1_ec_pubkey_compress(), with test similar to the related decompress() function.
145cc6e Improve performance of _ecmult_wnaf
36b305a Verify the result of GMP modular inverse using non-GMP code
0cbc860 Merge pull request #266
06ff7fe Merge pull request #267
5a43124 Save 1 _fe_negate since s1 == -s2
a5d796e Update code comments
3f3964e Add specific VERIFY tests for _fe_cmov
7d054cd Refactor to save a _fe_negate
b28d02a Refactor to remove a local var
55e7fc3 Perf. improvement in _gej_add_ge
a0601cd Fix VERIFY calculations in _fe_cmov methods
17f7148 Merge pull request #261
7657420 Add tests for adding P+Q with P.x!=Q.x and P.y=-Q.y
8c5d5f7 tests: Add failing unit test for #257 (bad addition formula)
5de4c5d gej_add_ge: fix degenerate case when computing P + (-lambda)P
bcf2fcf gej_add_ge: rearrange algebra
e2a07c7 Fix compilation with C++
873a453 Merge pull request #250
91eb0da Merge pull request #247
210ffed Use separate in and out pointers in `secp256k1_ec_pubkey_decompress`
a1d5ae1 Tiny optimization
729badf Merge pull request #210
2d5a186 Apply effective-affine trick to precomp
4f9791a Effective affine addition in EC multiplication
2b4cf41 Use pkg-config always when possible, with failover to manual checks for libcrypto
git-subtree-dir: src/secp256k1
git-subtree-split: 2bfb82b10edf0f0b0e366a12f94c8b21a914159d
58ef0ff doc: update docs for Tor listening (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
68ccdc4 doc: Mention Tor listening in release notes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
09c1ae1 torcontrol improvements and fixes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2f796e5 Better error message if Tor version too old (Peter Todd)
8f4e67f net: Automatically create hidden service, listen on Tor (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
- Force AUTHCOOKIE size to be 32 bytes: This provides protection against
an attack where a process pretends to be Tor and uses the cookie
authentication method to nab arbitrary files such as the
wallet
- torcontrol logging
- fix cookie auth
- add HASHEDPASSWORD auth, fix fd leak when fwrite() fails
- better error reporting when cookie file is not ok
- better init/shutdown flow
- stop advertizing service when disconnected from tor control port
- COOKIE->SAFECOOKIE auth
69d373f Don't wipe the sigcache in TestBlockValidity (Pieter Wuille)
0b9e9dc Evict sigcache entries that are seen in a block (Pieter Wuille)
830e3f3 Make sigcache faster and more efficient (Pieter Wuille)
Previous text could be interpreted as the the _additional_ fee paid by
the result on top of the fee the original version paid, rather than the
correct interpretation: the absolute fee the resulting tx pays.
Previously all conflicting transactions were evaluated as a whole to
determine if the feerate was being increased. This meant that low
feerate children pulled the feerate down, potentially allowing a high
transaction with a high feerate to be replaced by one with a lower
feerate.
Replaces transactions already in the mempool if a new transaction seen
with a higher fee, specifically both a higher fee per KB and a higher
absolute fee. Children are evaluateed for replacement as well, using the
mempool package tracking to calculate replaced fees/size. Transactions
can opt-out of transaction replacement by setting nSequence >= maxint-1
on all inputs. (which all wallets do already)
Starting with Tor version 0.2.7.1 it is possible, through Tor's control socket
API, to create and destroy 'ephemeral' hidden services programmatically.
https://stem.torproject.org/api/control.html#stem.control.Controller.create_ephemeral_hidden_service
This means that if Tor is running (and proper authorization is available),
bitcoin automatically creates a hidden service to listen on, without user
manual configuration. This will positively affect the number of available
.onion nodes.
- When the node is started, connect to Tor through control socket
- Send `ADD_ONION` command
- First time:
- Make it create a hidden service key
- Save the key in the data directory for later usage
- Make it redirect port 8333 to the local port 8333 (or whatever port we're listening on).
- Keep control socket connection open for as long node is running. The hidden service will
(by default) automatically go away when the connection is closed.
Process `getheaders` messages from whitelisted peers even if we are in
initial block download. Whitelisted peers can always use a node as a
block source.
Also log a debug message when the request is ignored, for
troubleshooting.
Fixes#6971.
d1c3762 Revert "Revert "Enable policy enforcing GetMedianTimePast as the end point of lock-time constraints"" (Gregory Maxwell)
e4e5334 Restore MedianTimePast for locktime. (Gregory Maxwell)
Previously, the undo weren't being flushed during a reindex because
fKnown was set to true in FindBlockPos. That is the correct behaviour
for block files as they aren't being touched, but undo files are
touched.
This changes the behaviour to always flush when switching to a new file
(even for block files, though that isn't really necessary).
The docs talk about bits 2 and 4 instead of 2 and 3, and bits are being
indexed from both 1 (describing nCode) and 0 (in second example).
Changed to use zero-indexing for all.
6342a48 Init: Use DEFAULT_TRANSACTION_MINFEE in help message (MarcoFalke)
a9c73a1 [wallet] Add comments for doxygen (MarcoFalke)
6b0e622 [wallet] Refactor to use new MIN_CHANGE (MarcoFalke)
a6efc01 Bugfix: Omit wallet-related options from -help when wallet is disabled (Luke Dashjr)
5f9260f Bugfix: If genproclimit is omitted to RPC setgenerate, don't change it; also show correct default in getmininginfo (Luke Dashjr)
420a82f Bugfix: Describe dblogsize option correctly (it refers to the wallet database, not memory pool) (Luke Dashjr)
caa3d42 Bugfix: RPC: blockchain: Display correct defaults in help for verifychain method (Luke Dashjr)
Moves the call Initialize() from init.cpp to CreateWithArguments() and handles the
return value. Moves the call Shutdown() from init.cpp to destructor.
Changes Initialize() and Shutdown() to protected members.
Revert "Revert "Add rules--presently disabled--for using GetMedianTimePast as endpoint for lock-time calculations""
This reverts commit 40cd32e835.
After careful analysis it was determined that the change was, in fact, safe and several people were suffering
momentary confusion about locktime semantics.
When processing a new transaction, in addition to spending the Coins of its txin's it creates a new Coins for its outputs. The existing ModifyCoins function will first make sure this Coins does not already exist. It can not exist due to BIP 30, but because of that the lookup can't be cached and always has to go to the database. Since we are creating the coins to match the new tx anyway, there is no point in checking if they exist first anyway. However this should not be used for coinbase tx's in order to preserve the historical behavior of overwriting the two existing duplicate tx pairs.
40cd32e Revert "Add rules--presently disabled--for using GetMedianTimePast as endpoint for lock-time calculations" (Gregory Maxwell)
8537ecd Revert "Enable policy enforcing GetMedianTimePast as the end point of lock-time constraints" (Gregory Maxwell)
This reverts commit 9d55050773.
As noted by Luke-Jr, under some conditions this will accept transactions which are invalid by the network
rules. This happens when the current block time is head of the median time past and a transaction's
locktime is in the middle.
This could be addressed by changing the rule to MAX(this_block_time, MTP+offset) but this solution and
the particular offset used deserve some consideration.
