Block 295,000 seems to meet the criteria of a reasonable timestamp and
no strange transactions. 295,000 is the current block height in the
bootstrap.dat torrent provided by jgarzik.
Start the core thread only when needed for initialization
or shutdown.
Avoids a bit of overhead, and also avoids spamming two
log messages before logging is properly initialized.
Add a function `AreBaseParamsConfigured` and use this to check
before writing to the debug log. This avoids assertions when the
application happens to log too early, which happens in the GUI.
Messages logged before the base parameters are configured can be
shown using `-printtoconsole`.
The option is only effective for either wallet-less builds or if
-disablewallet is specified as well.
Rebased-By: Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>
Rebased-From: 34d5fc0 4e1a196 bd4307b d53a33b 7e09b36
Github-Pull: #4286
4eedf4f make RandAddSeed() use OPENSSL_cleanse() (Philip Kaufmann)
6354935 move rand functions from util to new random.h/.cpp (Philip Kaufmann)
001a53d add GetRandBytes() as wrapper for RAND_bytes() (Philip Kaufmann)
The regtest framework is local, so often there is no need to
discover our external IP. Setting -discover=0 in util.py works
around shutdown hang caused by GetExternalIP waiting in recv().
An user on IRC reported an issue where `getrawchangeaddress`
keeps returning a single address when the keypool is exhausted.
In my opinion this is strange behaviour.
- Change CReserveKey to fail when running out of keys in the keypool.
- Make `getrawchangeaddress` return RPC_WALLET_KEYPOOL_RAN_OUT when
unable to create an address.
- Add a Python RPC test for checking the keypool behaviour in combination
with encrypted wallets.
This removes some inconsistencies in what worked and didn't work in
safemode. Now only RPCs involved in getting balances or sending
funds are disabled.
Previously you could mine but not submit blocks— but we may need more
blocks to resolve a fork that triggered safe mode in the first place,
and the non-submission was not reliable since some miners submit
blocks via multiple means. There were also a number of random commands
disabled that had nothing to do with the blockchain like verifymessage.
Thanks to earlz for pointing out that there were some moderately cheap
ways to maliciously trigger safe mode, which brought attention to
the fact that safemode wasn't used in a very intelligent way.
Pieter Wuille