- This commit renamed coinbase_max_additional_weight to block_reserved_weight.
- Also clarify that the reservation is for block header, transaction count
and coinbase transaction.
processNewBlock was added in 7b4d3249ced93ec5986500e43b324005ed89502f, but became unnecessary with the introduction of interfaces::BlockTemplate::submitSolution in 7b4d3249ced93ec5986500e43b324005ed89502f.
getTransactionsUpdated() is only needed by the implementation of waitFeesChanged() (not yet part of the interface).
It's very low level and not used by the proposed Template Provider.
This method was introduced in d8a3496b5ad27bea4c79ea0344f595cc1b95f0d3
and a74b0f93efa1d9eaf5abc2f6591c44a632aec6ed.
Providing a script for the coinbase transaction is only done in test code
and for CPU solo mining.
Production miners use the getblocktemplate RPC which omits the coinbase
transaction entirely from its block template, leaving it to external (pool)
software to construct it.
A coinbase script can still be passed via BlockCreateOptions instead.
A temporary overload is added so that the test can be modified in the
next commit.
This ensures that if a client no longer needs a block template,
the node can clear its memory as soon as possible.
A block template may hold on to transactions that are no longer
in the mempool, so this can be significant.