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a58cb3b1c12c8cb75a87375c50f94c4605bb805d qa: sanity check mined block have their coinbase timelocked to height (Antoine Poinsot)
8f2078af6a55448c003b3f7f3021955fbb351caa miner: timelock coinbase transactions (Antoine Poinsot)
788aeebf343526760fa8f3ed969ac3713212a5b6 qa: use prev height as nLockTime for coinbase txs created in unit tests (Antoine Poinsot)
c76dbe9b8b6f03b761a0ef97e1b8cd133b934714 qa: timelock coinbase transactions created in fuzz targets (Antoine Poinsot)
9c94069d8b6cf67a24eb03c51230a4f2b2bf2d64 contrib: timelock coinbase transactions in signet miner (Antoine Poinsot)
a5f52cfcc400ad0adb41a78c65b8abb971e0d622 qa: timelock coinbase transactions created in functional tests (Antoine Poinsot)
Pull request description:
The Consensus Cleanup soft fork proposal includes enforcing that coinbase transactions set their
nLockTime field to the block height minus 1, as well as their nSequence such as to not disable the
timelock. If such a fork were to be activated by Bitcoin users, miners need to be ready to produce
compliant blocks at the risk of losing substantial amounts mining would-be invalid blocks. As miners
are unfamously slow to upgrade, it's good to make this change as early as possible.
Although Bitcoin Core's GBT implementation does not provide the `coinbasetxn` field, and mining
pool software crafts the coinbase on its own, updating the Bitcoin Core mining code is a first step
toward convincing pools to update their (often closed source) code. A possible followup is also to
introduce new fields to GBT. In addition, this first step also makes it possible to test future
Consensus Cleanup changes.
The commit making the change also updates a bunch of seemingly-unrelated tests. This is because those tests were asserting error messages based on the txid of transactions involved, and changing the coinbase transaction structure necessarily changes the txid of all tests' transactions.
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