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1afc0e4aa1doc: remove potentially confusing ChainstateManager comment (James O'Beirne)769a1ef9fdtest: Add tests with maleated snapshot data (Fabian Jahr)4d8de04f32tests: add snapshot activation test (James O'Beirne)31d225274ftests: add deterministic chain generation unittest fixture (James O'Beirne)6606a4f8c6move-onlyish: break out CreateUTXOSnapshot from dumptxoutset (James O'Beirne)ad949ba449txdb: don't reset during in-memory cache resize (James O'Beirne)f6e2da5fb7simplify ChainstateManager::SnapshotBlockhash() return semantics (James O'Beirne)7a6c46b37echainparams: add allowed assumeutxo values (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/master/proposal --- This change proposes logic for activating UTXO snapshots, which is unused at the moment aside from an included unittest. There are a few moveonyish/refactoring commits to allow for halfway decent unittests. Basic structure is included for specifying and checking the assumeutxo hash values used to validate activated snapshots. Initially I had specified a few height/hash pairs for mainnet in this change, but because of the security-critical nature of those parameters, I figured it was better to leave their inclusion to a future PR that includes only that change - my intent being that reviewers will be more likely to verify those parameters firsthand in a dedicated PR. Aside from that and the snapshot activation logic, there are a few related changes: - ~~allow caching the `nChainTx` value in the CCoinsViewDB; this is set during snapshot activation. Because we don't necessarily have access to the full chain at the time of snapshot load, this value is communicated through the snapshot metadata and must be cached within the chainstate to survive restarts.~~ - break out `CreateUTXOSnapshot()` from dumptxoutset. This is essentially a move-only change to allow the reuse of snapshot creation logic from within unittests. - ...and a few other misc. changes that are solely related to unittests. The move-onlyish commit is most easily reviewed with `--color-moved=zebra`. ACKs for top commit: fjahr: Code review ACK1afc0e4aa1laanwj: Code review ACK1afc0e4aa1Tree-SHA512: a4e4f0698f00a53ec298b5e8b7ef1c9fdf0185f95139d1b1f63cfdf6cbbd6d17b8c6e51bbf1de2e5f1a946bf49f8466232698ef55acce5a012c80b067da366ea
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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 usable, 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 (see doc/build-*.md for instructions) and tested, but it is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly from release branches to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
The https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui repository is used exclusively for the development of the GUI. Its master branch is identical in all monotree repositories. Release branches and tags do not exist, so please do not fork that repository unless it is for development reasons.
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 CI (Continuous Integration) systems make 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
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Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the translation process for details on how this works.
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