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The encoding arg is confusing, because it is not applied consistently for all IO. Also, it is useless, as the majority of files are ASCII encoded, which are fine to encode and decode with any mode. Moreover, UTF-8 is already required for most scripts to work properly, so setting the encoding twice is redundant. So remove the encoding from most IO. It would be fine to remove from all IO, however I kept it for two files: * contrib/asmap/asmap-tool.py: This specifically looks for utf-8 encoding errors, so it makes sense to sepecify the utf-8 encoding explicitly. * test/functional/test_framework/test_node.py: Reading the debug log in text mode specifically counts the utf-8 characters (not bytes), so it makes sense to specify the utf-8 encoding explicitly.
Repository Tools
Developer tools
Specific tools for developers working on this repository.
Additional tools, including the github-merge.py script, are available in the maintainer-tools repository.
Verify-Commits
Tool to verify that every merge commit was signed by a developer using the github-merge.py script.
Linearize
Construct a linear, no-fork, best version of the blockchain.
Qos
A Linux bash script that will set up traffic control (tc) to limit the outgoing bandwidth for connections to the Bitcoin network. This means one can have an always-on bitcoind instance running, and another local bitcoind/bitcoin-qt instance which connects to this node and receives blocks from it.
Seeds
Utility to generate the pnSeed[] array that is compiled into the client.
Build Tools and Keys
Packaging
The Debian subfolder contains the copyright file.
All other packaging related files can be found in the bitcoin-core/packaging repository.
MacDeploy
Scripts and notes for Mac builds.
Test and Verify Tools
TestGen
Utilities to generate test vectors for the data-driven Bitcoin tests.
Verify-Binaries
This script attempts to download and verify the signature file SHA256SUMS.asc from bitcoin.org.
Command Line Tools
Completions
Shell completions for bash and fish.
UTXO Set Tools
UTXO-to-SQLite
This script converts a compact-serialized UTXO set (as generated by Bitcoin Core with dumptxoutset)
to a SQLite3 database. For more details like e.g. the created table name and schema, refer to the
module docstring on top of the script, which is also contained in the command's --help output.