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525e9dcba0Add submitSolution to BlockTemplate interface (Sjors Provoost)47b4875ef0Add getCoinbaseMerklePath() to Mining interface (Sjors Provoost)63d6ad7c89Move BlockMerkleBranch back to merkle.{h,cpp} (Sjors Provoost) Pull request description: The new `BlockTemplate` interface introduced in #30440 allows for a more efficient way for a miner to submit the block solution. Instead of having the send the full block, it only needs to provide the nonce, timestamp, version fields and coinbase transaction. This PR introduces `submitSolution()` for that. It's currently unused. #29432 and https://github.com/Sjors/bitcoin/pull/48 use it to process the Stratum v2 message [SubmitSolution](https://github.com/stratum-mining/sv2-spec/blob/main/07-Template-Distribution-Protocol.md#77-submitsolution-client---server). The method should be sufficiently generic to work with alternative mining protocols (none exist that I'm aware off). This PR also introduces `getCoinbaseMerklePath()`, which is needed in Stratum v2 to construct the `merkle_path` field of the `NewTemplate` message (see [spec](https://github.com/stratum-mining/sv2-spec/blob/main/07-Template-Distribution-Protocol.md#72-newtemplate-server---client)). The coinbase merkle path is also used in Stratum "v1", see e.g. https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/109820/questions-on-merkle-root-hashing-for-stratum-pools This last function uses `BlockMerkleBranch` which was moved to the test code in #13191. The reason back then for moving it was that it was no longer used. This PR moves it back. This PR does not change behaviour since both methods are unused. ACKs for top commit: achow101: ACK525e9dcba0itornaza: Code review ACK525e9dcba0tdb3: Code review and light test ACK525e9dcba0ryanofsky: Code review ACK525e9dcba0. Left minor suggestions but none are important, and looks like this could be merged as-is Tree-SHA512: 2a6a8f5d409ff4926643193cb67702240c7c687615414371e53383d2c13c485807f65e21e8ed98515b5456eca3d9fca13cec04675814a4081467d88b849c5653
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