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Ava Chow 8405fdb06e Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#33169: interfaces, chain, refactor: Remove unused getTipLocator and incaccurate getActiveChainLocator
2b00030af8 interfaces, chain, refactor: Remove inaccurate getActiveChainLocator (pablomartin4btc)
110a0f405c interfaces, chain, refactor: Remove unused getTipLocator (pablomartin4btc)

Pull request description:

  Remove `Chain::getTipLocator`, `Chain::GetLocator()`, and `Chain::getActiveChainLocator`:
  - `Chain::getTipLocator` is no longer used.
  - `Chain::GetLocator`, replaced its call by `GetLocator()`, which uses `LocatorEntries`, avoiding direct access to the chain itself (change suggested by l0rinc while reviewing this PR to maintain consistency with the overall refactoring).
  - `Chain::getActiveChainLocator`, whose name was misleading, has functionality redundant with Chain::findBlock.
    - Additionally, the comment for getActiveChainLocator became inaccurate following changes in commit ed470940cd (from PR #25717).

  This is a [follow-up](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29652#issuecomment-3151665095) to #29652.

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src/node/

The src/node/ directory contains code that needs to access node state (state in CChain, CBlockIndex, CCoinsView, CTxMemPool, and similar classes).

Code in src/node/ is meant to be segregated from code in src/wallet/ and src/qt/, to ensure wallet and GUI code changes don't interfere with node operation, to allow wallet and GUI code to run in separate processes, and to perhaps eventually allow wallet and GUI code to be maintained in separate source repositories.

As a rule of thumb, code in one of the src/node/, src/wallet/, or src/qt/ directories should avoid calling code in the other directories directly, and only invoke it indirectly through the more limited src/interfaces/ classes.

This directory is at the moment sparsely populated. Eventually more substantial files like src/validation.cpp and src/txmempool.cpp might be moved there.