Tests if addresses are online or offline by briefly connecting to them. These short lived connections are referred to as feeler connections. Feeler connections are designed to increase the number of fresh online addresses in tried by selecting and connecting to addresses in new. One feeler connection is attempted on average once every two minutes.
This change was suggested as Countermeasure 4 in
Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network, Ethan Heilman,
Alison Kendler, Aviv Zohar, Sharon Goldberg. ePrint Archive Report
2015/263. March 2015.
Updating documentation for adding new unit test files
Removing unneeded sentence from README
Removing uint160_tests.cpp as it DNE
Formatting command line instructions to use ``
fixing 80 char formatting issue in README
fixing more nits
mininode now supports witness transactions/blocks, blocktools
has a helper for adding witness commitments to blocks, and script
has a function to calculate hashes for signature under sigversion
1, used by segwit.
Py3 conversion by Marco Falke
Test to make sure upgraded nodes don't ask for non-wit blocks by
Gregory Sanders.
script_tests: always test bitcoinconsensus_verify_script_with_amount if VERIFY_WITNESS isn't set
Rename internal method + make it static
trim bitcoinconsensus_ prefix
Add SERIALIZE_TRANSACTION_WITNESS flag
CreateNewBlock returns a pointer for which the caller takes ownership.
Use std::unique_ptr to make this explicit and simplify handling of these
objects in getblocktemplate.
As per meeting 2016-03-31
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2016/03/31/#bad-chain-alerts
The partition checker was producing huge number of false-positives
and was disabled in 0.12.1 on the understanding it would either be
fixed in 0.13 or removed entirely from master if not.
Add error and range-checking parsers for unsigned 32 and 64 bit numbers.
The 32-bit variant is required for parsing sequence numbers from the
command line in `bitcoin-tx` (see #8164 for discussion). I've thrown in
the 64-bit variant as a bonus, as I'm sure it will be needed at some
point.
Also adds tests, and updates `developer-notes.md`.
Cory Fields