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9563a645c22a455da3d2d305ed0eef4266b1d322 refactor: add stdd:: includes to core_write (fanquake) 8b9efebb0a1a1e6b3a6de88cef57454f1a79eb04 refactor: use named args when ScriptToUniv or TxToUniv are invoked (Michael Dietz) 22f25a61168f261dff06fb66737be55eab290c5b refactor: prefer snake case, TxToUniv arg hashBlock renamed block_hash (Michael Dietz) 828a094ecfbf93ad9e4bb83b85a519f7416ff3fb refactor: merge ScriptPubKeyToUniv & ScriptToUniv into one function (Michael Dietz) Pull request description: I've cherry-picked some of the commits out of #22924, and made minor changes (like fixing named args). ACKs for top commit: MarcoFalke: re-ACK 9563a645c22a455da3d2d305ed0eef4266b1d322 🕓 Tree-SHA512: 4f0e5b45c14cbf68b9e389bbe1211c125d95cbd3da5205b1cff6a4c44f15b15039ba2a5b25cd7e2580d9169404f1b7ff620d8a7e01f6112e3cb153ecfaef8916
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
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 read the original Bitcoin 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.
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
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.