Andrew Chow f3bc1a7282
Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#26265: POLICY: Relax MIN_STANDARD_TX_NONWITNESS_SIZE to 65 non-witness bytes
b2aa9e85289fc654106a890c35935e9c76c411fb Add release note for MIN_STANDARD_TX_NONWITNESS_SIZE relaxation (Greg Sanders)
8c5b3646b5afe8a61f5c66478d8e11f0d2ce5108 Relax MIN_STANDARD_TX_NONWITNESS_SIZE to 65 non-witness bytes (Greg Sanders)

Pull request description:

  Since the original fix was set to be a "reasonable" transaction to reduce allocations and the true motivation later revealed, it makes sense to relax this check to something more principled.

  There are more exotic transaction patterns that could take advantage of a relaxed requirement, such as 1 input, 1 output OP_RETURN to burn a utxo to fees for CPFP purposes when change isn't practical.

  Two changes could be accomplished:

  1) Anything not 64 bytes could be allowed

  2) Anything above 64 bytes could be allowed

  In the Great Consensus Cleanup, suggestion (2)
  was proposed as a consensus change, and is the simpler of the two suggestions. It would not allow an "empty" OP_RETURN but would reduce the required padding from 22 bytes to 5.

  The functional test is also modified to test the actual case
  we care about: 64 bytes

  Related mailing list discussions here:
  https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-October/020995.html
  And a couple years earlier:
  https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2020-May/017883.html

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  pablomartin4btc:
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  jonatack:
    ACK b2aa9e85289fc654106a890c35935e9c76c411fb with some suggestions

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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.