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0) Adjust BIP16 & BIP30 enforcement values 1) Reduce amount that peers can adjust our time to eliminate an attack vector. Thanks to coblee for this fix. 2) Zeitgeist2 patch - thanks to Lolcust and ArtForz. This fixes an issue where a 51% attack can change difficulty at will. Go back the full period unless it's the first retarget after genesis. 3) Avoid overflow in CalculateNextWorkRequired(). Thanks to pooler for the overflow fix. 4) SegWit ContextualCheckBlockHeader adjustment and extra coverage 5) Reject peer proto version below 70002. Thanks to wtogami for this patch. 6) Adjust default settings for Litecoin
Repository Tools
Developer tools
Specific tools for developers working on this repository.
Contains the script github-merge.py for merging GitHub pull requests securely and signing them using GPG.
Verify-Commits
Tool to verify that every merge commit was signed by a developer using the above 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
Debian
Contains files used to package bitcoind/bitcoin-qt for Debian-based Linux systems. If you compile bitcoind/bitcoin-qt yourself, there are some useful files here.
Gitian-descriptors
Notes on getting Gitian builds up and running using KVM.
Gitian-keys
PGP keys used for signing Bitcoin Core Gitian release results.
MacDeploy
Scripts and notes for Mac builds.
RPM
RPM spec file for building bitcoin-core on RPM based distributions
Gitian-build
Script for running full Gitian 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.