Reduce checkpoints' effect on consensus.

Instead of only checking height to decide whether to disable script checks,
actually check whether a block is an ancestor of a checkpoint, up to which
headers have been validated. This means that we don't have to prevent
accepting a side branch anymore - it will be safe, just less fast to
do.

We still need to prevent being fed a multitude of low-difficulty headers
filling up our memory. The mechanism for that is unchanged for now: once
a checkpoint is reached with headers, no headers chain branching off before
that point are allowed anymore.
This commit is contained in:
Pieter Wuille
2015-03-19 05:34:06 -07:00
parent 23254131a3
commit dce8360e44
6 changed files with 15 additions and 38 deletions

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@@ -26,9 +26,6 @@ struct CCheckpointData {
double fTransactionsPerDay;
};
//! Returns true if block passes checkpoint checks
bool CheckBlock(const CCheckpointData& data, int nHeight, const uint256& hash);
//! Return conservative estimate of total number of blocks, 0 if unknown
int GetTotalBlocksEstimate(const CCheckpointData& data);