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Previously the coinbase transaction generated by our miner code was not used downstream, because the getblocktemplate RPC excludes it. Since the Mining IPC interface was introduced in #30200 we do expose this dummy coinbase transaction. In Stratum v2 several parts of it are communicated downstream, including the scriptSig. This commit removes the dummy extraNonce from the coinbase scriptSig in block templates requested via IPC. This limits the scriptSig to what is essential for consensus (BIP34) and removes the need for external mining software to remove the dummy, or even ignore the scriptSig we provide and generate it some other way. This could cause problems if a future soft fork requires additional data to be committed here. A test is added to verify the new IPC behavior. It achieves this by introducing an include_dummy_extranonce option which defaults to false with all test code updated to set it to true. Because this option is not exposed via IPC, callers will no longer see it. The caller needs to ensure that for blocks 1 through 16 they pad the scriptSig in order to avoid bad-cb-length. Co-authored-by: Anthony Towns <aj@erisian.com.au>
src/node/
The src/node/ directory contains code that needs to access node state
(state in CChain, CBlockIndex, CCoinsView, CTxMemPool, and similar
classes).
Code in src/node/ is meant to be segregated from code in
src/wallet/ and src/qt/, to ensure wallet and GUI
code changes don't interfere with node operation, to allow wallet and GUI code
to run in separate processes, and to perhaps eventually allow wallet and GUI
code to be maintained in separate source repositories.
As a rule of thumb, code in one of the src/node/,
src/wallet/, or src/qt/ directories should avoid
calling code in the other directories directly, and only invoke it indirectly
through the more limited src/interfaces/ classes.
This directory is at the moment
sparsely populated. Eventually more substantial files like
src/validation.cpp and
src/txmempool.cpp might be moved there.