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Ava Chow bef99176e6 Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#27114: p2p: Allow whitelisting manual connections
0a533613fb docs: add release notes for #27114 (brunoerg)
e6b8f19de9 test: add coverage for whitelisting manual connections (brunoerg)
c985eb854c test: add option to speed up tx relay/mempool sync (brunoerg)
66bc6e2d17 Accept "in" and "out" flags to -whitelist to allow whitelisting manual connections (Luke Dashjr)
8e06be347c net_processing: Move extra service flag into InitializeNode (Luke Dashjr)
9133fd69a5 net: Move `NetPermissionFlags::Implicit` verification to `AddWhitelistPermissionFlags` (Luke Dashjr)
2863d7dddb net: store `-whitelist{force}relay` values in `CConnman` (brunoerg)

Pull request description:

  Revives #17167. It allows whitelisting manual connections. Fixes #9923

  Since there are some PRs/issues around this topic, I'll list some motivations/comments for whitelisting outbound connections from them:
  - Speed-up tx relay/mempool sync for testing purposes (my personal motivation for this) - In #26970, theStack pointed out that we whitelist peers to speed up tx relay for fast mempool synchronization, however, since it applies only for inbound connections and considering the topology `node0 <--- node1 <---- node2 <--- ... <-- nodeN`,  if a tx is submitted from any node other than node0, the mempool synchronization can take quite long.
  - https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29058#issuecomment-1865155764 - "Before enabling -v2transport by default (which I'd image may happen after https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/24748) we could consider a way to force manual connections to be only-v1 or even only-v2 (disabling reconnect-with-v1). A possibility could be through a net permission flag, if https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27114 makes it in."
  - https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/17167#issuecomment-1168606032 - "This would allow us to use https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25355 when making outgoing connections to all nodes, except to whitelisted ones for which we would use our persistent I2P address."
  - Force-relay/mempool permissions for a node you intentionally connected to.

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Bitcoin Core

Setup

Bitcoin Core is the original Bitcoin client and it builds the backbone of the network. It downloads and, by default, stores the entire history of Bitcoin transactions, which requires a few hundred gigabytes of disk space. Depending on the speed of your computer and network connection, the synchronization process can take anywhere from a few hours to a day or more.

To download Bitcoin Core, visit bitcoincore.org.

Running

The following are some helpful notes on how to run Bitcoin Core on your native platform.

Unix

Unpack the files into a directory and run:

  • bin/bitcoin-qt (GUI) or
  • bin/bitcoind (headless)

Windows

Unpack the files into a directory, and then run bitcoin-qt.exe.

macOS

Drag Bitcoin Core to your applications folder, and then run Bitcoin Core.

Need Help?

Building

The following are developer notes on how to build Bitcoin Core on your native platform. They are not complete guides, but include notes on the necessary libraries, compile flags, etc.

Development

The Bitcoin repo's root README contains relevant information on the development process and automated testing.

Resources

Miscellaneous

License

Distributed under the MIT software license.