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.
Delta values will be stored for new blocks; old blocks can be filled in by
re-indexing. The net value currently in the Sprout circuit is only calculated
when delta values for all previous blocks are present.
Add ability for node to reject tx from mempool by number of tx inputs
Implement short-term solution described in #2343 so that users can respond promptly to critical short-term problems caused by quadratic validation scaling, such as the getblocktemplate latency, block propagation latency, and mempool size inflation issues described in #2333.
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.
Bitcoin 0.12 test PRs 1
Cherry-picked from the following upstream PRs:
- bitcoin/bitcoin#6337
- bitcoin/bitcoin#6390
- bitcoin/bitcoin#5515
- bitcoin/bitcoin#6287 (partial, remainder included in bitcoin/bitcoin#6703)
- bitcoin/bitcoin#6465
Part of #2074.
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.
- removes mapBlockIndex find operation
- theoretically allows removing the cs_main lock during zqm notification while introducing a new file position lock
Issue #1851 shows that a zaddr->taddr can be rejected from mempools
due to not meeting fee requirements given the size of the transaction.
Fee calculation for joinsplit txs has not yet been agreed upon, so
during this interim period, this patch ensures joinsplit txs using
the default fee are not rejected due to an insufficient fee.