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486c1eea86 refactoring: remove unused chainActive (James O'Beirne) 631940aab2 scripted-diff: replace chainActive -> ::ChainActive() (James O'Beirne) a3a609079c refactoring: introduce unused ChainActive() (James O'Beirne) 1b6e6fcfd2 rename: CChainState.chainActive -> m_chain (James O'Beirne) Pull request description: This is part of the assumeutxo project: Parent PR: #15606 Issue: #15605 Specification: https://github.com/jamesob/assumeutxo-docs/tree/2019-04-proposal/proposal --- This change refactors the `chainActive` reference into a `::ChainActive()` call. It also distinguishes `CChainState`'s `CChain` data member as `m_chain` instead of the current `chainActive`, which makes it easily confused with the global data. The active chain must be obtained via function because its reference will be swapped at some point during runtime after loading a UTXO snapshot. This change, though lengthy, should be pretty easy to review since most of it is contained within a scripted-diff. Once merged, the parent PR should be easier to review. ACKs for commit 486c1e: Sjors: utACK 486c1ee promag: utACK 486c1ee. practicalswift: utACK 486c1eea863a41e597ae4fddc392f446f2518b4b Tree-SHA512: 06ed8f9e77f2d25fc9bea0ba86436d80dbbce90a1e8be23e37ec4eeb26060483e60b4a5c4fba679cb1867f61e3921c24abeb9cabdfb4d0a9b1c4ddd77b17456a
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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.