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The explicit statement that an Apple Developer Account is required in order to obtain the SDK is buried within the "Deterministic macOS DMG Notes" section. It should be the first thing mentioned under the "SDK Extraction" section. The reason to do this is to set expectations of what is required before starting any steps or clicking on links. This fixes the issue by doing just that; moving this information to the "SDK Extraction" section. Now that the information is moved, this also deletes unnecessary SDK related notes from the "Deterministic macOS DMG Notes" section. It is not necessary to explain under what sub-directory 'most' of the important files are inside of the 'Xcode.app'.
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.
Builder keys
PGP keys used for signing Bitcoin Core release results.
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.