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author | Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com> | 2015-03-19 05:34:06 -0700 |
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committer | Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com> | 2015-05-13 12:52:57 -0700 |
commit | dce8360e44d5330cc9f9d09c9b09ac9237237204 (patch) | |
tree | adeb8c21937470d6bd326f6a8cf2d9ae5f8904b9 /src/leveldb/README | |
parent | 23254131a3fdaeae9c50dafca6d0addbbf235820 (diff) |
Reduce checkpoints' effect on consensus.
Instead of only checking height to decide whether to disable script checks,
actually check whether a block is an ancestor of a checkpoint, up to which
headers have been validated. This means that we don't have to prevent
accepting a side branch anymore - it will be safe, just less fast to
do.
We still need to prevent being fed a multitude of low-difficulty headers
filling up our memory. The mechanism for that is unchanged for now: once
a checkpoint is reached with headers, no headers chain branching off before
that point are allowed anymore.
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