Revert "Reject transactions with excessive numbers of sigops"

This reverts commit 4fad8e6d831729efa1965fa2034e7e51d3d0a1be.

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index e135e93adb..55206600e2 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -956,18 +956,9 @@ bool AcceptToMemoryPool(CTxMemPool& pool, CValidationState &state, const CTransa
         if (Params().RequireStandard() && !AreInputsStandard(tx, view))
             return error("AcceptToMemoryPool: : nonstandard transaction input");
 
-        // Check that the transaction doesn't have an excessive number of
-        // sigops, making it impossible to mine. Since the coinbase transaction
-        // itself can contain sigops MAX_TX_SIGOPS is less than
-        // MAX_BLOCK_SIGOPS; we still consider this an invalid rather than
-        // merely non-standard transaction.
-        unsigned int nSigOps = GetLegacySigOpCount(tx);
-        nSigOps += GetP2SHSigOpCount(tx, view);
-        if (nSigOps > MAX_TX_SIGOPS)
-            return state.DoS(0,
-                             error("AcceptToMemoryPool : too many sigops %s, %d > %d",
-                                   hash.ToString(), nSigOps, MAX_TX_SIGOPS),
-                             REJECT_NONSTANDARD, "bad-txns-too-many-sigops");
+        // Note: if you modify this code to accept non-standard transactions, then
+        // you should add code here to check that the transaction does a
+        // reasonable number of ECDSA signature verifications.
 
         int64_t nValueOut = tx.GetValueOut();
         int64_t nFees = nValueIn-nValueOut;
diff --git a/src/main.h b/src/main.h
index 01d3f119e1..a27020459a 100644
--- a/src/main.h
+++ b/src/main.h
@@ -45,8 +45,6 @@ static const unsigned int MAX_STANDARD_TX_SIZE = 100000;
 static const unsigned int MAX_BLOCK_SIGOPS = MAX_BLOCK_SIZE/50;
 /** Maxiumum number of signature check operations in an IsStandard() P2SH script */
 static const unsigned int MAX_P2SH_SIGOPS = 15;
-/** The maximum number of sigops we're willing to relay/mine in a single tx */
-static const unsigned int MAX_TX_SIGOPS = MAX_BLOCK_SIGOPS/5;
 /** The maximum number of orphan transactions kept in memory */
 static const unsigned int MAX_ORPHAN_TRANSACTIONS = MAX_BLOCK_SIZE/100;
 /** Default for -maxorphanblocks, maximum number of orphan blocks kept in memory */