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Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#24732: Remove buggy and confusing IncrementExtraNonce

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cccc4e879a Remove nHeightEnd and nHeight in generateBlocks helper (MarcoFalke)
fa38b1c8bd Remove buggy and confusing IncrementExtraNonce (MarcoFalke)

Pull request description:

  IncrementExtraNonce has many issues:

  * It is test-only code, but part of bitcoind
  * It is using the block height of the tip, as opposed to the block's previous block as reference for the new height. See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/24730#issuecomment-1085586193
  * It has no use case in regtest testing. With a low difficulty the extra nonce won't be incremented. With a high difficulty the test-only functions are clumsy to handle anyway. For example, the generate* RPCs will return an empty array once they reached `maxtries`, as opposed to an error. Also the calls can't be aborted early unless the node shuts down completely. So I think it is fine to just remove the extra nonce functionality and leave it to the outside to implement, if needed. For example, a wrapper script can call the `generate*` RPCs once every second, to use the timestamp as extra nonce.

ACKs for top commit:
  ajtowns:
    ACK cccc4e879a

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MarcoFalke
2022-04-06 11:12:05 +02:00
parent 372f1a3c25 cccc4e879a
commit 79bf1a0fa2
7 changed files with 24 additions and 56 deletions
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src/node/miner.cpp
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@@ -430,22 +430,4 @@ void BlockAssembler::addPackageTxs(int& nPackagesSelected, int& nDescendantsUpda
nDescendantsUpdated += UpdatePackagesForAdded(ancestors, mapModifiedTx);
}
}
void IncrementExtraNonce(CBlock* pblock, const CBlockIndex* pindexPrev, unsigned int& nExtraNonce)
{
// Update nExtraNonce
static uint256 hashPrevBlock;
if (hashPrevBlock != pblock->hashPrevBlock) {
nExtraNonce = 0;
hashPrevBlock = pblock->hashPrevBlock;
}
++nExtraNonce;
unsigned int nHeight = pindexPrev->nHeight + 1; // Height first in coinbase required for block.version=2
CMutableTransaction txCoinbase(*pblock->vtx[0]);
txCoinbase.vin[0].scriptSig = (CScript() << nHeight << CScriptNum(nExtraNonce));
assert(txCoinbase.vin[0].scriptSig.size() <= 100);
pblock->vtx[0] = MakeTransactionRef(std::move(txCoinbase));
pblock->hashMerkleRoot = BlockMerkleRoot(*pblock);
}
} // namespace node

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src/node/miner.h
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@@ -200,8 +200,6 @@ private:
int UpdatePackagesForAdded(const CTxMemPool::setEntries& alreadyAdded, indexed_modified_transaction_set& mapModifiedTx) EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(m_mempool.cs);
};
/** Modify the extranonce in a block */
void IncrementExtraNonce(CBlock* pblock, const CBlockIndex* pindexPrev, unsigned int& nExtraNonce);
int64_t UpdateTime(CBlockHeader* pblock, const Consensus::Params& consensusParams, const CBlockIndex* pindexPrev);
/** Update an old GenerateCoinbaseCommitment from CreateNewBlock after the block txs have changed */