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This also makes negative transaction versions non-standard. This avoids an issue triggered in Bitcoin block 256818 where transactions with negative version numbers were incorrectly serialized into the UTXO set. On restart nodes detect the inconsistency and refuse to start so long as a block with these transactions is inside the self-consistency check window, logging "coin database inconsistencies found". The software recommends reindexing, but reindexing does not correct the problem. This should be fixed by changing the chainstate serialization, but working around it seems harmless for now because the version is not used by any network rule currently. A patch free workaround is to start with -checklevel=2 which skips the consistency checks, but the IsStandard change is important for miners in order to protect unpatched nodes.0.8
Gregory Maxwell
11 years ago
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Warren Togami
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