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fa6b053b5c964fb35935fa994cb782c0731a56f8 mempool: persist with XOR (MarcoFalke) Pull request description: Currently the `mempool.dat` file stores data received from remote peers as-is. This may be problematic when a program other than Bitcoin Core tries to interpret them by accident. For example, an anti-virus program or other program may scan the file and move it into quarantine, or delete it, or corrupt it. While the local wallet is expected to re-submit any pending transactions, unrelated transactions may be missing from the mempool after a restart. This may cause fee estimates to be off, or may cause block relay to be slower. Fix this, similar to https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6650, by rolling a random XOR pattern over the dat file when writing or reading it. Obviously this can only protect against programs that accidentally and unintentionally are trying to mess with the dat file. Any program that intentionally wants to mess with the dat file can still trivially do so. ACKs for top commit: achow101: re-ACK fa6b053b5c964fb35935fa994cb782c0731a56f8 glozow: reACK fa6b053b5c964fb35935fa994cb782c0731a56f8 ismaelsadeeq: ACK fa6b053b5c964fb35935fa994cb782c0731a56f8 Tree-SHA512: ded2ce3d81bc944b828263534e3178a1e45a914fe8e024f4a14c6561a73e301820944ecc75dd704b3d4221a7a3a5c0597ccab79546250c1197609ee981fe324e
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
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What is Bitcoin Core?
Bitcoin Core connects to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network to download and fully validate blocks and transactions. It also includes a wallet and graphical user interface, which can be optionally built.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
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Development Process
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completely stable. Tags are created
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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.
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(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
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