* Adding ability to serialise parts of the header, pre-nonce and post-nonce
* Some test integration of queueing functions in cuckoo-miner
* more cuckoo-miner async mode integration, now more or less working
* integrating async miner workflow
* rocksdb update
* u64 internal difficulty representation, and integration of latest Cuckoo-miner API
* change to cuckoo-miner notify function
* Issue in testing, and if use_async value is None in grin.toml
* making async mode explicit in tests - 2
* fiddle with port numbers for CI
* update tag to ensure cuckoo-miner build doesn't fail on windows
* change the order in which tests are run
When a new block is rejected by the validation pipeline as orphan,
the chain now keeps it in a ring buffer of capped size. Anytime
a new block is accepted, all orphans in the ring buffer are
retried. This is helpful to handle all the cases where we receive
blocks out of order for networking/timing reasons.
Couple improvements to the sum tree implementation. First change
is to not store the data but only its hashes, assuming a higher
level layer will take care of the data (KV store).
Second minor improvement is renaming Node into NodeData and vice
versa.
* Adding cuckoo-miner into grin as a proper dependency now
* Defaulting to using cuckoo-miner
* Updates to tests to use cuckoo_miner by default, (using cuckoo16)
* addition of configuration file to grin executable, instructions on how it's picked up are in grin.toml
* Starting to add a configuration file, and change some elements of configuration structures to make them more consistent
* core: partially implement sumtree; appending and pruning work
* core: add simple merkle-root-sum-calculating function.
* core: implement replacement in sumtree
* core: implement de/serialization for sumtree
* core: make sumtree index use hashes rather than data
* core: prevent double-adds to sumtrees
* core: replace sumtree's separate sums with a Summable trait
* core: make SumTree::contains() return the index if an element exists
* Refactoring to allow for different miner implementations. Added conditional support for compiling and loading the cuckoo-miner plugin project.
* Small changes to experimentally integrate with cuckoo-miner and compatibility with latest version of cuckoo-miner.
* Turning off inclusion of cuckoo_miner by default
* Disabling simulate_parallel_mining test for now
Introduce a new Chain struct that maintains the current head,
acts as facade to the store and the block processing pipeline
and handles all appropriate locking.
All higher level components, like the overall server, REST APIs
and miner have been update to only depend on Chain. Cleaned up
some duplication and tests now that there's a single entry point
to all blockchain operations.
* Clarifications to SHA3 hash and addition of progress-freeness concept in Pooling Capacity
* Update to cuckoo cycle details based on John Tromp's comments.
* A couple of typos
* More clarifications based on John Tromp's feedback
* Beginning to add a POW description, and some minor changes to mining testing, addition of further debug information to mining output.
* Many additions to create first draft of POW documentation
* Fixes to difficult adjustments by adding a MINIMUM_DIFFICULTY consensus value. Otherwise never adjusted above 1 due to flooring.
* Starting to refactor test, adding http post to wallet sender
* Implemented ability to run servers on different ports (mostly for testing), and implemented ability to post http requests directly to receiving wallets
* Adding detailed instructions on running multiple servers on the same machine
* Changes to build.doc to outline server running process
* Removed unwanted debug statements
* WIP Local server testing framework evolution
* More refactoring of server pool, checked in because there's a problem
* Added server reference structure, and ability to return server references from tests cleanly
* Added simulate_parallel_mining test, which puts some artificial slowdown into test mining loops, and the difficulty can currently be watched in the log
* Removing the ServerRef structure placed in earlier and replaced with a ServerStats structure, that just returns relevant info about the Server state without exposing it to the world
Integrate the new difficulty calculation into the block chain
validation, the miner and tests. As the difficulty calculation
doesn't use varying Cuckoo sizes anymore and we narrowed down
reasonable final Cuckoo Cycle parameters, removed all Cuckoo
Cycle sizes from block headers.
Formalized easier Cuckoo Cycle sizes for testing (and possibly
testnet) by introducing a test mode in configuration. Updated
all tests.
* Beginning to refactor server tests
* Extended test framework to include running wallet servers and miners. Also some changes to the wallet reciever api to include a wallet config and set the data directly for the wallet file explicitly rather than assuming it's always in the working dir.
* Adding wallet config to main executable
* Adding ability to select wallet server while mining
* Configurable wallet receiver url
Operations on the wallet data file are now fenced by a lock to
avoid potentially messy concurrent modifications by multiple
processes (i.e. the wallet receiver and a send command). The lock
is done using a create-only lock file, which is an atomic
operation.
Fixes a few loose ends in the full cycle of sending coins,
accepting them, pushing that transaction to the pool and having it
mined. More specifically:
* The API output endpoint needs to be a UTXO endpoint, as the
server can't make any guarantee about having a spent output.
* Bubbling up HTTP not found errors.
* Wallet output status checker now handles spent outputs.
* Transaction pool validates the transaction before accepting it.
* Fixed the operation API routes.
* Fixed too greedy wallet coin selection loop.
* Transactions coming from the network are now pushed to the pool
through the net adapter.
* New blocks accepted by the chain are sent to the pool for
eviction.
* The miner requests transactions from the pool to build its
blocks.
* The push API adds to the pool, removing the mock.
* Implementation of the adapter to the chain required by the pool
to get consistent UTXOs. Grossly unoptimized until we have the UTXO
MMR ready.
Introduced new non-dummy trait for the blockchain as seen from the
pool that just produces a UTXO. Made to pool parametric on that
trait to get rid of the Box wrapper and still allow the test
implementation.
Once the wallet transaction is fully built, serializing it and
sending the push request to a node. Implemented the push node
API, mocked up for now (until the tx pool is integrated).
Parse the partial transaction encoded in JSON, adding a new output
and finalizing. Should push the final tx to a grin node for
broadcast once that's fleshed out. Should also add an endpoint for
the http receiver.
