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Author SHA1 Message Date
Gavin Andresen
8ceb28afc3 Merge pull request #3883 from dgenr8/first_double_spend
Relay and alert user to double spends
2014-06-30 08:35:12 -04:00
Pieter Wuille
c9a0918330 Add a skiplist to the CBlockIndex structure.
This allows fast (O(log n)) access to far predecessor blocks.
Use it to speed up CChain::FindFork and CChain::GetLocator.
2014-06-29 21:51:54 +02:00
Pieter Wuille
aa81564700 Track peers' available blocks 2014-06-29 21:50:55 +02:00
Tom Harding
d640a3ceab Relay double-spends, subject to anti-DOS
Allows network wallets and other clients to see transactions that respend
a prevout already spent in an unconfirmed transaction in this node's mempool.

Knowledge of an attempted double-spend is of interest to recipients of the
first spend.  In some cases, it will allow these recipients to withhold
goods or services upon being alerted of a double-spend that deprives them
of payment.

As before, respends are not added to the mempool.

Anti-Denial-of-Service-Attack provisions:
 - Use a bloom filter to relay only one respend per mempool prevout
 - Rate-limit respend relays to a default of 100 thousand bytes/minute
 - Define tx2.IsEquivalentTo(tx1): equality when scriptSigs are not considered
 - Do not relay these equivalent transactions

Remove an unused variable declaration in txmempool.cpp.
2014-06-27 07:54:21 -07:00
Gavin Andresen
6259937388 Merge pull request #4365 from gavinandresen/relax_isstandard
Relax IsStandard rules for pay-to-script-hash transactions
2014-06-27 10:53:24 -04:00
jtimon
df852d2bcc Refactor proof of work related functions out of main 2014-06-23 23:10:24 +02:00
Gavin Andresen
7f3b4e9569
Relax IsStandard rules for pay-to-script-hash transactions
Relax the AreInputsStandard() tests for P2SH transactions --
allow any Script in a P2SH transaction to be relayed/mined,
as long as it has 15 or fewer signature operations.

Rationale: https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/88be40c141bc67acb247

I don't have an easy way to test this, but the code changes are
straightforward and I've updated the AreInputsStandard unit tests.
2014-06-23 15:09:52 -04:00
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
Pieter Wuille
d38da59bf6 Code simplifications after CTransaction::GetHash() caching 2014-06-22 00:06:17 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
5905d71fe3
Merge pull request #4170
ac14bcc small formatting, indentation and comment fixes (Philip Kaufmann)
2014-06-11 11:31:00 +02:00
Philip Kaufmann
1c24187b51 remove unused UPnP code from main.h 2014-06-10 18:34:35 +02:00
Philip Kaufmann
ac14bcc1f1 small formatting, indentation and comment fixes
- contains zero code changes
2014-06-10 18:23:56 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
62fdf381fa
Merge pull request #3824
f0a83fc Use Params().NetworkID() instead of TestNet() from the payment protocol (jtimon)
2871889 net.h was using std namespace through chainparams.h included in protocol.h (jtimon)
c8c52de Replace virtual methods with static attributes, chainparams.h depends on protocol.h instead of the other way around (jtimon)
a3d946e Get rid of TestNet() (jtimon)
6fc0fa6 Add RPCisTestNet chain parameter (jtimon)
cfeb823 Add RequireStandard chain parameter (jtimon)
21913a9 Add AllowMinDifficultyBlocks chain parameter (jtimon)
d754f34 Move majority constants to chainparams (jtimon)
8d26721 Get rid of RegTest() (jtimon)
cb9bd83 Add DefaultCheckMemPool chain parameter (jtimon)
2595b9a Add DefaultMinerThreads chain parameter (jtimon)
bfa9a1a Add MineBlocksOnDemand chain parameter (jtimon)
1712adb Add MiningRequiresPeers chain parameter (jtimon)
2014-06-09 12:52:29 +02:00
Pieter Wuille
77339e5aec Get rid of the static chainMostWork (optimization) 2014-06-09 02:21:15 +02:00
Gavin Andresen
171ca7745e estimatefee / estimatepriority RPC methods
New RPC methods: return an estimate of the fee (or priority) a
transaction needs to be likely to confirm in a given number of
blocks.

Mike Hearn created the first version of this method for estimating fees.
It works as follows:

For transactions that took 1 to N (I picked N=25) blocks to confirm,
keep N buckets with at most 100 entries in each recording the
fees-per-kilobyte paid by those transactions.

(separate buckets are kept for transactions that confirmed because
they are high-priority)

The buckets are filled as blocks are found, and are saved/restored
in a new fee_estiamtes.dat file in the data directory.

A few variations on Mike's initial scheme:

To estimate the fee needed for a transaction to confirm in X buckets,
all of the samples in all of the buckets are used and a median of
all of the data is used to make the estimate. For example, imagine
25 buckets each containing the full 100 entries. Those 2,500 samples
are sorted, and the estimate of the fee needed to confirm in the very
next block is the 50'th-highest-fee-entry in that sorted list; the
estimate of the fee needed to confirm in the next two blocks is the
150'th-highest-fee-entry, etc.

That algorithm has the nice property that estimates of how much fee
you need to pay to get confirmed in block N will always be greater
than or equal to the estimate for block N+1. It would clearly be wrong
to say "pay 11 uBTC and you'll get confirmed in 3 blocks, but pay
12 uBTC and it will take LONGER".

A single block will not contribute more than 10 entries to any one
bucket, so a single miner and a large block cannot overwhelm
the estimates.
2014-06-06 10:44:57 -04:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
f0f4904bec
Merge pull request #4258
7b45d94 Make max number of orphan blocks kept in memory a startup parameter (fixes #4253) (shshshsh)
2014-06-04 19:30:44 +02:00
shshshsh
7b45d943b2 Make max number of orphan blocks kept in memory a startup parameter (fixes #4253) 2014-06-04 11:58:18 +00:00
jtimon
d754f34e8d Move majority constants to chainparams 2014-06-04 13:29:36 +02:00
Cozz Lovan
06a91d9698 VerifyDB progress 2014-06-03 15:21:47 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
73f7153f43
Merge pull request #4206
79d06dc Remove redundant c_str (R E Broadley)
2014-05-25 16:46:49 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
0f1040ba52
Merge pull request #4183
f40dbee remove CPubKey::VerifyCompact( ) which is never used (Kamil Domanski)
28b6c1d remove GetMedianTime( ) which is never used (Kamil Domanski)
5bd4adc remove LookupHostNumeric( ) which is never used (Kamil Domanski)
595f691 remove LogException( ) which is never used (Kamil Domanski)
f4057cb remove CTransaction::IsNewerThan which is never used (Kamil Domanski)
0e31e56 remove CWallet::AddReserveKey which is never used (Kamil Domanski)
2014-05-25 16:19:54 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
a48355dc44
Remove forward declaration for non-existent class CCoinsDB
Found by stephenreed on #bitcoin.dev.
2014-05-22 13:09:31 +02:00
R E Broadley
79d06dc6e0 Remove redundant c_str 2014-05-22 00:23:03 +07:00
Kamil Domanski
28b6c1def5 remove GetMedianTime( ) which is never used 2014-05-20 14:58:21 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
8bcfccbc2d
Merge pull request #4076
397668e Deduplicate uint* comparison operator logic (Pieter Wuille)
df9eb5e Move {Get,Set}Compact from bignum to uint256 (Pieter Wuille)
a703150 Add multiplication and division to uint160/uint256 (Pieter Wuille)
4d480c8 Exception instead of assigning 0 in case of wrong vector length (Pieter Wuille)
eb2cbd7 Deduplicate shared code between uint160 and uint256 (Pieter Wuille)
2014-05-09 17:03:51 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
82564e21e7
Merge pull request #4134
aa250f0 Remove NumBlocksOfPeers (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2014-05-09 16:54:07 +02:00
Pieter Wuille
df9eb5e14f Move {Get,Set}Compact from bignum to uint256 2014-05-09 16:44:59 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
54f102248b
Merge pull request #3843
787ee0c Check redeemScript size does not exceed 520 byte limit (Peter Todd)
4d79098 Increase IsStandard() scriptSig length (Peter Todd)
f80cffa Do not trigger a DoS ban if SCRIPT_VERIFY_NULLDUMMY fails (Peter Todd)
6380180 Add rejection of non-null CHECKMULTISIG dummy values (Peter Todd)
29c1749 Let tx (in)valid tests use any SCRIPT_VERIFY flag (Peter Todd)
68f7d1d Create (MANDATORY|STANDARD)_SCRIPT_VERIFY_FLAGS constants (Peter Todd)
2014-05-09 16:09:20 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
d54985f3f1
Merge pull request #3884
942b33a Split AcceptBlockHeader from AcceptBlock. (Pieter Wuille)
f457347 Split up CheckBlock in a block and header version (Pieter Wuille)
2014-05-09 16:00:41 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
aa250f0453 Remove NumBlocksOfPeers
Generally useless information. Only updates on connect time, not after
that. Peers can easily lie and the median filter is not effective in
preventing that.

In the past it was used for progress display in the GUI but
`CheckPoints::guessVerificationProgress` provides a better way that is now used.
It was too easy to mislead it. Peers do lie about it in practice, see issue #4065.

From the RPC, `getpeerinfo` gives the peer raw values, which are more
useful.
2014-05-06 11:09:19 +02:00
Peter Todd
68f7d1d7af Create (MANDATORY|STANDARD)_SCRIPT_VERIFY_FLAGS constants 2014-05-05 05:35:27 -04:00
Philip Kaufmann
1cc7f54a8d use standard __func__ instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ 2014-04-30 14:45:24 +02:00
Pieter Wuille
942b33a19d Split AcceptBlockHeader from AcceptBlock.
Also modify some connection logic to deal with non-full blocks in the index.
2014-04-25 00:35:58 +02:00
Pieter Wuille
f457347053 Split up CheckBlock in a block and header version 2014-04-25 00:33:13 +02:00
Philip Kaufmann
5409404d75 add constant for shared (GUI/core) -par settings
- introduce DEFAULT_SCRIPTCHECK_THREADS in main.h
- only show values from -"MAX_HW_THREADS" up to 16 for -par, as it
  makes no sense to try to leave more "cores free" than the system
  supports anyway
- use the new constant in optionsdialog and remove defaults from
  .ui file
2014-03-27 11:54:13 +01:00
Philip Kaufmann
2b45345aac minor style cleanups 2014-03-11 17:26:05 +01:00
Mike Hearn
037b4f1485 Make mining fee policy match relay fee policy.
This resolves a case in which a mismatch could be used to bloat up the
mempool by sending transactions that pay enough fee to relay, but not
to be mined, with the default policies.
2014-03-10 19:17:18 +01:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
b76733d8e8
Merge pull request #3514
f59d8f0 Per-peer block download tracking and stalled download detection. (Pieter Wuille)
2014-03-10 13:23:18 +01:00
Mark Friedenbach
e935293e17 Minor code cleanup: remove indentation
This indentation should have been stripped out when AreInputsStandard was made a top-level function instead of a CTransaction method.
2014-03-08 00:43:35 -08:00
Philip Kaufmann
7f1b6a6316 remove orphan fHaveGUI from main.h 2014-02-16 22:05:24 +01:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
b8d9058a4d
Merge pull request #3646
5770254 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. (gubatron)
2014-02-16 11:44:48 +01:00
Gavin Andresen
2b72d46f42 Handle "conflicted" transactions properly
Extend CMerkleTx::GetDepthInMainChain with the concept of
a "conflicted" transaction-- a transaction generated by the wallet
that is not in the main chain or in the mempool, and, therefore,
will likely never be confirmed.

GetDepthInMainChain() now returns -1 for conflicted transactions
(0 for unconfirmed-but-in-the-mempool, and >1 for confirmed).

This makes getbalance, getbalance '*', and listunspent all agree when there are
mutated transactions in the wallet.

Before:
 listunspent: one 49BTC output
 getbalance: 96 BTC (change counted twice)
 getbalance '*': 46 BTC (spends counted twice)

After: all agree, 49 BTC available to spend.
2014-02-14 11:08:40 -05:00
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
Pieter Wuille
f59d8f0b64 Per-peer block download tracking and stalled download detection.
Keep track of which block is being requested (and to be requested) from
each peer, and limit the number of blocks in-flight per peer. In addition,
detect stalled downloads, and disconnect if they persist for too long.

This means blocks are never requested twice, and should eliminate duplicate
downloads during synchronization.
2014-02-08 16:52:19 +01:00
Pieter Wuille
bbde1e99c8 Limit the number of orphan blocks
In case the total number of orphan blocks in memory exceeds a limit
(currently set to 750), a random orphan block (which is not
depended on by another orphan block) is dropped. This means it will
need to be downloaded again, but it won't consume memory until then.
2014-01-31 14:16:06 +01:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
19007cf552
Merge pull request #3592
c117d9e Support for error messages and a few more rejection reasons (Luke Dashjr)
14e7ffc Use standard BIP 22 rejection reasons where applicable (Luke Dashjr)
2014-01-30 16:45:26 +01:00
Luke Dashjr
c117d9e93a Support for error messages and a few more rejection reasons 2014-01-29 17:39:24 +00:00
Pieter Wuille
75f51f2a63 Prepare block connection logic for headers-first.
This changes the block processing logic from "try to atomically switch
to a new block" to a continuous "(dis)connect a block, aiming for the
assumed best chain".

This means the smallest atomic operations on the chainstate become
individual block connections or disconnections, instead of entire
reorganizations. It may mean that we try to reorganize to one block,
fail, and rereorganize again to the old block. This is slower, but
doesn't require unbounded RAM.

It also means that a ConnectBlock which fails may be no longer called
from the ProcessBlock which knows which node sent it. To deal with that,
a mapBlockSource is kept, and invalid blocks cause asynchronous "reject"
messages and banning (if necessary).
2014-01-27 21:20:41 +01:00
Philip Kaufmann
7e08e29117 better std::exception logging for block/undo files 2014-01-06 15:09:26 +01:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
cd7fa8bb43 Move nTransactionFee from main.cpp to wallet.cpp
Transaction fee is only used by the wallet.
No need for it to be in main.cpp.
2013-12-13 16:34:57 +01:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
150771c4f3
Merge pull request #3326
ad898b4 Increase default -blockmaxsize/prioritysize to 750K/50K (Gavin Andresen)
2013-12-13 05:39:35 +01:00
Pieter Wuille
b2864d2fb3 Add main-specific node state 2013-12-08 14:51:37 +01:00
Gavin Andresen
0733c1bde6 Refactor: move GetValueIn(tx) to tx.GetValueIn()
GetValueIn makes more sense as a CTransaction member.
2013-11-30 15:42:10 +10:00
Gavin Andresen
ad898b40aa Increase default -blockmaxsize/prioritysize to 750K/50K 2013-11-30 14:38:15 +10:00
theuni
106f133de6 Fix uninitialized variable added in b33b9a6fe
After discussing with BlueMatt, this appears to be harmless in its
current state since it's always set before it's used. Initialize it
anyway for readability and future safety.
2013-11-25 19:51:07 -05:00
Cozz Lovan
8dfd8c62dc pass nBytes as parameter to GetMinFee(..) 2013-11-14 14:25:04 +01:00
Gavin Andresen
7d7df381f8 Merge pull request #3199 from sipa/mempoolmove
Cleanup refactoring of coins/mempool
2013-11-10 18:09:58 -08:00
Gavin Andresen
358ce2664d New reject p2p message 2013-11-11 10:31:08 +10:00
Pieter Wuille
a0fa20a12b Move CCoins-related logic to coins.{cpp.h} 2013-11-10 19:37:56 +01:00
Pieter Wuille
84674082b0 Make CCoinsView use block hashes instead of indices 2013-11-10 19:22:53 +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
Gavin Andresen
319b11607f Refactor: CTxMempool class to its own txmempool.{cpp,h} 2013-11-04 11:27:02 +10:00
Pieter Wuille
caca6aa4eb Make some globals in main non-public.
This means they are declared static, and their extern definition in
main.h is removed. Also moved CBlockIndexWorkComparator to the .cpp
file.
2013-11-01 00:54:28 +01:00
Pieter Wuille
85eb2cef33 Do not use the redundant BestInvalidWork record in the block database.
As block index entries have a flag for marking invalid blocks, the
'best invalid work' information can be derived from there. In addition,
remove the global from main.h
2013-11-01 00:54:28 +01:00
Gavin Andresen
e13934c94e Merge pull request #3115 from sipa/walletmain
Interaction cleanups between main and wallet
2013-10-29 18:01:57 -07:00
Matt Corallo
b33b9a6fef Fix comparison tool by asking for blocks more aggressively 2013-10-27 02:23:36 -04:00
Pieter Wuille
00588c3fac Use boost signals for callbacks from main to wallet 2013-10-26 14:51:46 +02:00
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
f9b15a4fc9 Move CBlockLocator to core.h
As CBlockLocator is a P2P data structure, and independent from the
validation logic, it can be moved to core.
2013-10-15 11:09:29 +02:00
Pieter Wuille
e4daecda0b Reimplement CBlockLocator's chain-related logic in CChain.
This removes a few unused CBlockLocator methods, and moves the
construction and fork-finding logic to CChain (which can do these
more efficiently, as it has a height-indexable chain available).
It also makes CBlockLocator independent from the validation code.
2013-10-15 11:09:29 +02:00
Pieter Wuille
4c6d41b8b6 Refactor/encapsulate chain globals into a CChain class 2013-10-11 23:25:50 +02:00
Philip Kaufmann
8d750f1d21 internal miner: move 2 globals from main to miner
- moves 2 global variables from main.cpp/h to miner.cpp/h
- also removes 2 unneded includes in miner.cpp, that come from miner.h
  already
2013-09-25 15:48:11 +02:00
Gavin Andresen
ff4e3e63e7 Merge pull request #2949 from gmaxwell/fewer_fee_footguns
[raw] reject insanely high fees by default in sendrawtransaction
2013-09-22 16:44:35 -07:00
Philip Kaufmann
faaeae1eb3 fix some printf -> LogPrintf leftovers 2013-09-20 10:49:34 +02:00
Pieter Wuille
367c29d6e0 Bugfix: nHeightLast instead of nHeightFirst 2013-09-19 10:44:35 +02:00
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
Gregory Maxwell
9d14e689c8 [raw] reject insanely high fees by default in sendrawtransaction
There have been several incidents where mainnet experimentation with
 raw transactions  resulted in insane fees.  This is hard to prevent
 in the raw transaction api because the inputs may not be known.
 Since sending doesn't work if the inputs aren't known, we can catch
 it there.

This rejects fees > than 10000 * nMinRelayTxFee or 1 BTC with the
 defaults and can be overridden with a bool at the rpc.
2013-08-28 15:49:51 -07:00
Pieter Wuille
2461aba1ac Mempool consistency check 2013-08-15 23:55:35 +02:00
Gavin Andresen
159bc48193 Simplify storage of orphan transactions
Orphan transactions were stored as a CDataStream pointer;
this changes the mapOrphanTransactions data structures to
store orphans as a CTransaction.

This also fixes CVE-2013-4627 by always re-serializing
transactions before relaying them.
2013-08-02 16:10:25 +10:00
Jeff Garzik
d247a5d130 Move internal miner/block creation to separate miner.cpp module.
Public functions referenced elsewhere are added to miner.h.
2013-07-31 09:43:35 -04:00
Jeff Garzik
18946846d5 Minor miner fixes (hey hey it's fun to say)
* Fix UpdateCoins() definition in main.h
* Remove pwalletMain reference from BitcoinMiner(), as it is passed
  a wallet argument.
2013-07-31 08:45:49 -04:00
Jeff Garzik
d598872726 Merge pull request #2743 from jgarzik/reject-reason
Log reason for non-standard transaction rejection
2013-07-10 08:50:49 -07:00
Eric Lombrozo
e6fe8e77fb Calling UnregisterAllWallets() instead of UnregisterWallet(pwalletMain) in init.cpp 2013-06-24 09:33:15 -07:00
Eric Lombrozo
33944573ca Moved CBlock from main.h to core.h 2013-06-23 19:59:35 -07:00
Eric Lombrozo
2a4d3464fd Pulled AcceptBlock out of CBlock. 2013-06-23 19:59:35 -07:00
Eric Lombrozo
38991ffa8a Pulled CheckBlock out of CBlock. 2013-06-23 19:59:35 -07:00
Eric Lombrozo
1959997afb Pulled AddToBlockIndex out of CBlock. 2013-06-23 19:59:35 -07:00
Eric Lombrozo
f3ae51dcce Pulled ConnectBlock out of CBlock. 2013-06-23 19:59:35 -07:00
Eric Lombrozo
5c363ed622 Pulled DisconnectBlock out of CBlock. 2013-06-23 19:59:34 -07:00
Eric Lombrozo
8031399494 Moved ReadBlockFromDisk implementation to main.cpp 2013-06-23 19:59:34 -07:00
Eric Lombrozo
7db120d531 Moved CBlock::ReadFromDisk out of CBlock to functions ReadBlockFromDisk in main.h 2013-06-23 19:59:34 -07:00
Eric Lombrozo
226f821942 Moved WriteBlockToDisk implementation from main.h to main.cpp 2013-06-23 19:59:32 -07:00
Eric Lombrozo
a6dba0fdb2 Moved CBlock::WriteToDisk out of CBlock to inline function WriteBlockToDisk in main.h 2013-06-23 19:58:23 -07:00
Jeff Garzik
4be2aba302 Merge pull request #2778 from jgarzik/rpc-verifydb
RPC: add 'verifychain' to verify chain database at runtime
2013-06-22 23:08:13 -07:00
Jeff Garzik
980bfe6ef8 Log reason for non-standard transaction rejection 2013-06-23 02:05:25 -04:00
Pieter Wuille
b4a8a326c0 Merge pull request #2660 from TheBlueMatt/gmfrefactor
Refactor fee rules to make them actually readable.
2013-06-22 10:08:57 -07:00
Jeff Garzik
168ba99392 Pass check level, check depth to VerifyDB() 2013-06-19 11:32:49 -04:00
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