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Add -blocksxor boolean option

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`blocks/` | | Blocks directory; can be specified by `-blocksdir` option (except for `blocks/index/`)
`blocks/index/` | LevelDB database | Block index; `-blocksdir` option does not affect this path
`blocks/` | `blkNNNNN.dat`<sup>[\[2\]](#note2)</sup> | Actual Bitcoin blocks (in network format, dumped in raw on disk, 128 MiB per file)
`blocks/` | `blkNNNNN.dat`<sup>[\[2\]](#note2)</sup> | Actual Bitcoin blocks (dumped in network format, 128 MiB per file)
`blocks/` | `revNNNNN.dat`<sup>[\[2\]](#note2)</sup> | Block undo data (custom format)
`blocks/` | `xor.dat` | Rolling XOR pattern for block and undo data files
`chainstate/` | LevelDB database | Blockchain state (a compact representation of all currently unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) and metadata about the transactions they are from)
`indexes/txindex/` | LevelDB database | Transaction index; *optional*, used if `-txindex=1`
`indexes/blockfilter/basic/db/` | LevelDB database | Blockfilter index LevelDB database for the basic filtertype; *optional*, used if `-blockfilterindex=basic`

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Blockstorage
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Block files are now XOR'd by default with a key stored in the blocksdir.
Previous releases of Bitcoin Core or previous external software will not be able to read the blocksdir with a non-zero XOR-key.
Refer to the `-blocksxor` help for more details.