After discussion in #7164 I think this is better.
Max tip age was introduced in #5987 to make it possible to run
testnet-in-a-box. But associating this behavior with the testnet chain
is wrong conceptually, as it is not needed in normal usage.
Should aim to make testnet test the software as-is.
Replace it with a (debug) option `-maxtipage`, which can be
specified only in the specific case.
Remove the nType and nVersion as parameters to all serialization methods
and functions. There is only one place where it's read and has an impact
(in CAddress), and even there it does not impact any of the recursively
invoked serializers.
Instead, the few places that need nType or nVersion are changed to read
it directly from the stream object, through GetType() and GetVersion()
methods which are added to all stream classes.
We do not need to be able to calculate multiple SignatureHash versions for a
single transaction format; instead, we use the transaction format to determine
the SigVersion.
The consensus branch ID *does* need to be passed in from the outside, as only
the caller knows the context in which the SignatureHash is being calculated
(ie. mempool acceptance vs. block validation).
JoinSplit signature verification has been moved into ContextualCheckTransaction,
where the consensus branch ID can be obtained.
The argument to the sign command for zcash-tx has been modified to take a height
in addition to the optional sigtype flags.
Mempool improvements, branch ID awareness
Whenever the local chain tip is updated, transactions in the mempool which commit to an
unmineable branch ID (for example, just before a network upgrade activates, where the
next block will have a different branch ID) will be removed.
Includes commits cherry-picked from the following upstream PRs:
- bitcoin/bitcoin#6654
- Only the mempool index change.
- bitcoin/bitcoin#6776
- bitcoin/bitcoin#7020
- bitcoin/bitcoin#6915
Part of #2074.
Sets default min relay tx fee to 100, which is used to initialize
nSatoshisPerK for min fee calculation. The default z_sendmany
fee of 10000 is now sufficient to cover a tx of size 100000 bytes,
so txs will not be treated as "free" and hit the free rate limiter.
Enable high-priority alerts to put the RPC into safe mode
This reverts the changes in 986b5e257e and adds a priority check.
Continuation of #1337Closes#1106
All blocks before the first subsidy halving block, with the exception of
the genesis block, must contain an output which sends 20% of the block
subsidy value to a scriptPubKey `FOUNDERS_REWARD_SCRIPT`.
The lock-time code currently uses CBlock::nTime as the cutoff point for time based locked transactions. This has the unfortunate outcome of creating a perverse incentive for miners to lie about the time of a block in order to collect more fees by including transactions that by wall clock determination have not yet matured. By using CBlockIndex::GetMedianTimePast from the prior block instead, the self-interested miner no longer gains from generating blocks with fraudulent timestamps. Users can compensate for this change by simply adding an hour (3600 seconds) to their time-based lock times.
If enforced, this would be a soft-fork change. This commit only adds the functionality on an unexecuted code path, without changing the behaviour of Bitcoin Core.
The partition checking code was using chainActive timestamps
to detect partitioning; with headers-first syncing, it should use
(and with this pull request, does use) pIndexBestHeader timestamps.
Fixes issue #6251
Github-Pull: #6256
Rebased-From: 65b94545036ae6e38e79e9c7166a3ba1ddb83f66
Make it possible to opt-out of the centralized alert system by providing
an option `-noalerts` or `-alerts=0`. The default remains unchanged.
This is a gentler form of #6260, in which I went a bit overboard by
removing the alert system completely.
I intend to add this to the GUI options in another pull after this.
Github-Pull: #6274
Rebased-From: 02a6702a82a5b00e0e0351041dd3267308b7f319
AcceptBlock will no longer process an unrequested block, unless it has not
been previously processed and has more work than chainActive.Tip()
Github-Pull: #5875
Rebased-From: 9be0e6837b878f72bd087ce32b7a2f2ffb2fd544
Previously due to an off-by-one error the wallet ignored
nLockTime-by-height transactions that would be valid in the next block
even though they are accepted into the mempool. The transactions
wouldn't show up until confirmed, nor would they be included in the
unconfirmed balance. Similar to the mempool behavior fix in 665bdd3b,
the wallet code was calling IsFinalTx() directly without taking into
account the fact that doing so tells you if the transaction could have
been mined in the *current* block, rather than the next block.
To fix this we strip IsFinalTx() of non-consensus-critical
functionality, removing the default arguments, and add CheckFinalTx() to
check if a transaction will be final in the next block.
Github-Pull: #6183
Rebased-From: 28bf06236d3b385e95fe26a7a742395b30efd6ee
Create a monitoring task that counts how many blocks have been found in the last four hours.
If very few or too many have been found, an alert is triggered.
"Very few" and "too many" are set based on a false positive rate of once every fifty years of constant running with constant hashing power, which works out to getting 5 or fewer or 48 or more blocks in four hours (instead of the average of 24).
Only one alert per day is triggered, so if you get disconnected from the network (or are being Sybil'ed) -alertnotify will be triggered after 3.5 hours but you won't get another -alertnotify for 24 hours.
Tested with a new unit test and by running on the main network with -debug=partitioncheck
Run test/test_bitcoin --log_level=message to see the alert messages:
WARNING: check your network connection, 3 blocks received in the last 4 hours (24 expected)
WARNING: abnormally high number of blocks generated, 60 blocks received in the last 4 hours (24 expected)
The -debug=partitioncheck debug.log messages look like:
ThreadPartitionCheck : Found 22 blocks in the last 4 hours
ThreadPartitionCheck : likelihood: 0.0777702
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