Merge #18766: Disable fee estimation in blocksonly mode (by removing the fee estimates global)

4e28753f60 feestimator: encapsulate estimation file logic (Antoine Poinsot)
e8ea6ad9c1 init: don't create a CBlockPolicyEstimator if we don't relay transactions (Antoine Poinsot)
86ff2cf202 Remove the remaining fee estimation globals (Antoine Poinsot)
03bfeee957 interface: remove unused estimateSmartFee method from node (Antoine Poinsot)

Pull request description:

  If the `blocksonly` mode is turned on after running with transaction
  relay enabled for a while, the fee estimation will serve outdated data
  to both the internal wallet and to external applications that might be
  feerate-sensitive and make use of `estimatesmartfee` (for example a
  Lightning Network node).

  This has already caused issues (for example https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/16840 (C-lightning), or https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/2562 (LND)) and it seems prudent to fail rather than to give inaccurate values.

  This fixes #16840, and closes #16890 which tried to fix the symptoms (RPC) but not the cause as mentioned by sdaftuar :
  > If this is a substantial problem, then I would think we should take action to protect our own wallet users as well (rather than hide the results of what our fee estimation would do!).

ACKs for top commit:
  MarcoFalke:
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  jnewbery:
    utACK 4e28753f60

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MarcoFalke
2020-12-07 12:59:31 +01:00
15 changed files with 75 additions and 53 deletions

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@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <net.h>
#include <net_processing.h>
#include <noui.h>
#include <policy/fees.h>
#include <pow.h>
#include <rpc/blockchain.h>
#include <rpc/register.h>
@@ -141,7 +142,8 @@ TestingSetup::TestingSetup(const std::string& chainName, const std::vector<const
pblocktree.reset(new CBlockTreeDB(1 << 20, true));
m_node.mempool = MakeUnique<CTxMemPool>(&::feeEstimator, 1);
m_node.fee_estimator = std::make_unique<CBlockPolicyEstimator>();
m_node.mempool = std::make_unique<CTxMemPool>(m_node.fee_estimator.get(), 1);
m_node.chainman = &::g_chainman;
m_node.chainman->InitializeChainstate(*m_node.mempool);