* Move Proof and Difficulty types to pow module. Difficulty scaling calculation.
* Diffculty scaling and size shift for 2nd PoW
* Backport e7eb26ee
* Test compilation fixes
* Scaling only need to go one way, as @tromp pointed out
* 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
* Adding output stats from plugin, when available
* adding grin config
* moving pow crate from core/pow to it's own crate
* moving POW/mining stuff into pow module, and removing mining dependency from chain
* refactored most of mining into pow module...miner.rs still in server
* update grin tests
* updating genesis block mining to use configured miner, if available
* chain tests back into chain, done with pow refactor
* use tag of cuckoo-miner for pr
* playing around with changing cuckoo sizes on the fly
* modifying tests to use global cuckoo parameters, and checking results
* check for pow size
* Changing global function names, and removing length from POW serialization
* changes to use blake2 for cuckoo seed generation
* updating tests to blake 2
* playing around with changing cuckoo sizes on the fly
* modifying tests to use global cuckoo parameters, and checking results
* check for pow size
* Changing global function names, and removing length from POW serialization
* 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)
* 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
* core: cleanup slicing impls for Hash
* core: clean up Readable trait, implement Readable/Writeable for various integers
* core: change Hash debug output to hex
* core: correct warnings in all modules
