Add rules--presently disabled--for using GetMedianTimePast as endpoint for lock-time calculations

The lock-time code currently uses CBlock::nTime as the cutoff point for time based locked transactions. This has the unfortunate outcome of creating a perverse incentive for miners to lie about the time of a block in order to collect more fees by including transactions that by wall clock determination have not yet matured. By using CBlockIndex::GetMedianTimePast from the prior block instead, the self-interested miner no longer gains from generating blocks with fraudulent timestamps. Users can compensate for this change by simply adding an hour (3600 seconds) to their time-based lock times.

If enforced, this would be a soft-fork change. This commit only adds the functionality on an unexecuted code path, without changing the behaviour of Bitcoin Core.
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Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-03 12:55:45 -07:00
parent 46f74379b8
commit 9d55050773
5 changed files with 54 additions and 7 deletions

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@@ -308,8 +308,10 @@ bool IsFinalTx(const CTransaction &tx, int nBlockHeight, int64_t nBlockTime);
* Check if transaction will be final in the next block to be created.
*
* Calls IsFinalTx() with current block height and appropriate block time.
*
* See consensus/consensus.h for flag definitions.
*/
bool CheckFinalTx(const CTransaction &tx);
bool CheckFinalTx(const CTransaction &tx, int flags = -1);
/**
* Closure representing one script verification