This introduces a 'minimum chain work' chainparam which is intended
to be the known amount of work in the chain for the network at the
time of software release. If you don't have this much work, you're
not yet caught up.
This is used instead of the count of blocks test from checkpoints.
This criteria is trivial to keep updated as there is no element of
subjectivity, trust, or position dependence to it. It is also a more
reliable metric of sync status than a block count.
Optimistically test the latch bool before taking the lock.
For all IsInitialBlockDownload calls after the first to return false,
this avoids the need to lock cs_main.
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.
Sapling merkle tree implementation
Closes#3056.
Please also review https://github.com/zcash/librustzcash/pull/8
This PR:
1. Introduces ZCSaplingIncrementalMerkleTree using Pedersen hashes.
2. Adds support for Sapling anchors into consensus rules. (Adds commitments, checks anchors are correct, handles block (dis)connects, etc.)
3. Handles mempool eviction for obsolete anchors.
4. Enforces correctness of block's Sapling root field
5. Changes miner to correctly apply the Sapling root to the block header
6. Handles mempool consistency checks for anchors
Make some globals static that can be
I wrote this patch as part of making a Bazel build system but it really is independent from that so I'm putting this as a separate PR.
External linkage does not help and just encourages sloppy dependencies (ie using symbols only declared in a cpp file in some other cpp file) and can lead to weird issues when there are name collisions.
Given that in default GetSerializeSize implementations created by
ADD_SERIALIZE_METHODS we're already using CSizeComputer(), get rid
of the specialized GetSerializeSize methods everywhere, and just use
CSizeComputer. This removes a lot of code which isn't actually used
anywhere.
For CCompactSize and CVarInt this actually removes a more efficient
size computing algorithm, which is brought back in a later commit.
