For instance any nBits compressed value from 0x1a44b800 thru
0x1a44b9ff will show as difficulty 244139.4816. This patch will
more accurately convert the nBits compressed values to the double
difficulty.
This will display any of the recent difficulty levels slightly
differently though. Early difficulties and testnet difficulties are
not large enough to trigger this bug.
None of the actual targets or compressed targets are changed, only
the conversion to the floating point difficulty is changed and afaik
it is only ever displayed, never converted back so the patch does not
effect the target calculations, binary files, databases nor the binary
protocol.
Transactions created with the new minimal fee policy would not be
relayed by the network. Therefore, we separate the minimal fee that
is necessary to relay and to create, leaving the creation one at
the old amount, for now.
* A new option -dns is introduced that enables name lookups in
-connect and -addnode, which is not enabled by default,
as it may be considered a security issue.
* A Lookup function is added that supports retrieving one or
more addresses based on a host name
* CAddress constructors (optionally) support name lookups.
* The different places in the source code that did name lookups
are refactored to use NameLookup or CAddress instead (dns seeding,
irc server lookup, getexternalip, ...).
* Removed ToStringLog() from CAddress, and switched to ToString(),
since it was empty.
When one single dependency of an unconfirmed transaction is already verified, this does not mean the parent is confirmed. We can skip checking its own dependencies though.
Information about the best known chain is added to wallet.dat. If this
information does not match the data in blkindex.dat, a rescan is automatically
performed, starting from the the last known block. When upgrading from a wallet
which does not have this information, no rescan is done automatically.
Change some internal data structures to keep track of spentness of each wallet transaction output separately, to support partially-spent transactions:
* an update to the data structures (vfSpent in CWalletTx instead of fSpent)
* a backward-compatible update to the wallet disk format. Old clients reading back an updated wallet will ignore partially spent transactions when creating new ones, and may report a wrong balance, though.
* some helper functions (CWalletTx: IsSpent, MarkSpent, MarkDirty to reset cached values, GetAvailableCredit which only counts unredeemed outputs)
Pieter Wuille