* improve: time crate flagged as deprecated, switch to actively maintained chrono crate
* improve: complete the switching from deprecated time crate to chrono crate, for all the tests part
* improve: complete switching to chrono crate, for the left tests in 'chain' and 'wallet'
* Added sizeshift to proof of work and encoding as VLQ
* Fix some loose ends to get things to compile
* Rename sizehift to min_sizeshift
* Pipeline checks for PoW Cuckoo Cycle size shift and adjustment
factor before difficulty comparison.
* Working delta+VLQ encoding of u64 PoW, unfortunately still a
little larger than u32, at least for Cuckoo30.
* Changed binary encoding of proof of work to a sequence of exact
compact bit representation of each nonce. Somewhat simpler,
shorter and matches the data to be hashed.
* Few fixes based on @tromp feedback:
* Max nonce is 2^(N-1)
* Need a separate constant for reference sizeshift
* Cuckoo implementation now conserves sizeshift. Test providing a
block at higher sizeshift.
* Last small overflow protection
We used to hash the hash of the header, needlessly. This also
makes a few function signatures more explicit.
Note that this is consensus breaking and should be accompanied
with a similar change on the cuckoo-pow repository:
6fcecf516aFixes#1066
Small refactoring of one folder, if it makes sense I could extend the scope.
* Remove some cloning (real and just verbosity in the code)
* Naming conventions like to/into*
* Some Clippy's suggestions
I found that we don't use field init shorthand syntax, so I didn't touch this part, was it discussed before?
* Beginning to remove in-process miner
* rustfmt
* rustfmt
* rustfmt
* rustfmt
* remove pow crate and put remnants into core
* rustfmt
* fix test compilation in core and chain
* rustfmt
* Updating server tests to use test miner
* rustfmt
* rustfmt
* remove pow from test matrix
* adding basic stratum stats to TUI
* run stratum server at all times, and halt messages while syncing
* fix core tests
* add ability to run internal test miner for cuckoo 16 testing
* modify build instructions
