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582d2cd74754d6b9a2394616a9c82a89d2d71976 Cover UTXO set access with lock annotations (James O'Beirne) 569353068568444a25b301bbd6513bb510157dc9 refactor: have CCoins* data managed under CChainState (James O'Beirne) fae6ab6aed3b9fdc9201bb19a307dfc3d9b89891 refactor: pcoinsTip -> CChainState::CoinsTip() (James O'Beirne) Pull request description: This is part of the [assumeutxo project](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/projects/11): Parent PR: #15606 Issue: #15605 Specification: https://github.com/jamesob/assumeutxo-docs/tree/2019-04-proposal/proposal --- This change encapsulates UTXO set data within CChainState instances, removing global data `pcoinsTip` and `pcoinsviewdb`. This is necessary if we want to maintain multiple chainstates with their own rendering of the UTXO set. We introduce a class CoinsViews which consolidates the construction of a CCoins* hierarchy. This commit could be broken into smaller pieces, but it would require more ephemeral diffs to, e.g., temporarily change CCoinsViewDB's constructor invocations. ACKs for top commit: Sjors: reACK 582d2cd74754d6b9a2394616a9c82a89d2d71976 MarcoFalke: ACK 582d2cd747 Tree-SHA512: ec9d904fe5dca8cd2dc4b7916daa5d8bab30856dd4645987300f905e0a19f9919fce4f9d1ff03eda982943ca73e6e9a746be6cf53b46510de36e8c81a1eafba1
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What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin Core is the name of open source software which enables the use of this currency.
For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/, or read the original whitepaper.
License
Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Development Process
The master branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md and useful hints for developers can be found in doc/developer-notes.md.
Testing
Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.
Automated Testing
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run
(assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: make check. Further details on running
and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.
There are also regression and integration tests, written
in Python, that are run automatically on the build server.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py
The Travis CI system makes sure that every pull request is built for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and that unit/sanity tests are run automatically.
Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.
Translations
Changes to translations as well as new translations can be submitted to Bitcoin Core's Transifex page.
Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the translation process for details on how this works.
Important: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.
Translators should also subscribe to the mailing list.