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Author SHA1 Message Date
Suhas Daftuar
50262d8953 Allow block announcements with headers
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
2015-11-29 11:59:23 +01:00
Pieter Wuille
dce8360e44 Reduce checkpoints' effect on consensus.
Instead of only checking height to decide whether to disable script checks,
actually check whether a block is an ancestor of a checkpoint, up to which
headers have been validated. This means that we don't have to prevent
accepting a side branch anymore - it will be safe, just less fast to
do.

We still need to prevent being fed a multitude of low-difficulty headers
filling up our memory. The mechanism for that is unchanged for now: once
a checkpoint is reached with headers, no headers chain branching off before
that point are allowed anymore.
2015-05-13 12:52:57 -07:00
sandakersmann
f914f1a746
Added "Core" to copyright headers
Github-Pull: #5494
Rebased-From: 15de949bb9277e442302bdd8dee299a8d6deee60
2014-12-19 19:55:32 +01:00
Pieter Wuille
5ea3bc06d5 Move remaining CBlockIndex methods to chain.cpp 2014-12-11 17:39:10 +01:00
Michael Ford
2fdc3351d7 Update comments in chain to be doxygen compatible 2014-10-25 16:46:54 +08:00
21E14
b7ae2c172a Chain::SetTip return type to void 2014-10-20 17:56:19 -04:00
Philip Kaufmann
7bec6dd230 cleanup license and header end comment in chain.cpp/.h 2014-09-29 08:22:03 +02:00
jtimon
e8b5f0d549 Move CBlockIndex, CChain and related code out of main 2014-09-08 22:17:19 +02:00