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9de0d94508828f5fdfaf688ccda5a91d38b32c58 doc: add disclaimer highlighting shortcomings of the basic multisig example (Michael Dietz) f9479e4626f6b5126ff8cdab3a7e718c609429ef test, doc: basic M-of-N multisig minor cleanup and clarifications (Michael Dietz) e05cd0546a155afcd45c43ce730c4abecd40dfed doc: add another signing flow for multisig with descriptor wallets and PSBTs (Michael Dietz) 17dd6573008c8aca9fc0da9419225c85a4f94330 doc: M-of-N multisig using descriptor wallets and PSBTs, as well as a signing flow (Michael Dietz) 1f20501efce041d34e63ab9a11359bedf4a82cd5 test: add functional test for multisig flow with descriptor wallets and PSBTs (Michael Dietz) Pull request description: Aims to resolve issue https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/21278. I try to follow the steps laanwj outlined there exactly, with the exception of using `combinepsbt` instead of `joinpsbts`. I wrote a functional test to make sure it works as expected before doing the docs, and figured it would also be a good source of documentation. So I kept the test as simple as possible and didn't go crazy with edge-cases and various checks. I do have a lot more test-cases I've written that I will follow up with (either in a separate PR or another commit - lmk if you have a preference), but I want to do it in a way that doesn't bloat this test so it remains useful as a quickstart (unless that's a bad idea)? ACKs for top commit: S3RK: Code review ACK 9de0d94. Rspigler's argument convinced me that we should leave the workflow with two wallets. I assume using multisig with external signers is a popular use-case and it's important to keep compatibility. laanwj: Code and documentation review ACK 9de0d94508828f5fdfaf688ccda5a91d38b32c58 Tree-SHA512: 6c76e787c21f09d8be5eaa11f3ca3eaa4868497824050562bdfb2095c73b90f5e8987a8775119891d6bfde586e3f31ad1b13e4b67b0802e1d23ef050227a1211
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
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 read the original Bitcoin 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 (see doc/build-*.md for instructions) and tested, but it is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly from release branches to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
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.
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.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py
The CI (Continuous Integration) systems make 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.