Remove GetTotalBlocksEstimate and checkpoint tests that test nothing.

GetTotalBlocksEstimate is no longer used and it was the only thing
 the checkpoint tests were testing.

Since checkpoints are on their way out it makes more sense to remove
 the test file than to cook up a new pointless test.

Github-Pull: #9053
Rebased-From: 2082b5574cec783f4ff99941492d92e05680b293

4 files changed, 0 insertions, 41 deletions

diff --git a/src/Makefile.test.include b/src/Makefile.test.include
index ef30eeb4ae..0878d8234c 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.test.include
+++ b/src/Makefile.test.include
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ BITCOIN_TESTS =\
   test/bip32_tests.cpp \
   test/blockencodings_tests.cpp \
   test/bloom_tests.cpp \
-  test/Checkpoints_tests.cpp \
   test/coins_tests.cpp \
   test/compress_tests.cpp \
   test/crypto_tests.cpp \
diff --git a/src/checkpoints.cpp b/src/checkpoints.cpp
index aefddce464..d22c188c16 100644
--- a/src/checkpoints.cpp
+++ b/src/checkpoints.cpp
@@ -55,16 +55,6 @@ namespace Checkpoints {
         return fWorkBefore / (fWorkBefore + fWorkAfter);
     }
 
-    int GetTotalBlocksEstimate(const CCheckpointData& data)
-    {
-        const MapCheckpoints& checkpoints = data.mapCheckpoints;
-
-        if (checkpoints.empty())
-            return 0;
-
-        return checkpoints.rbegin()->first;
-    }
-
     CBlockIndex* GetLastCheckpoint(const CCheckpointData& data)
     {
         const MapCheckpoints& checkpoints = data.mapCheckpoints;
diff --git a/src/checkpoints.h b/src/checkpoints.h
index cd25ea5379..04346f35ff 100644
--- a/src/checkpoints.h
+++ b/src/checkpoints.h
@@ -19,9 +19,6 @@ struct CCheckpointData;
 namespace Checkpoints
 {
 
-//! Return conservative estimate of total number of blocks, 0 if unknown
-int GetTotalBlocksEstimate(const CCheckpointData& data);
-
 //! Returns last CBlockIndex* in mapBlockIndex that is a checkpoint
 CBlockIndex* GetLastCheckpoint(const CCheckpointData& data);
 
diff --git a/src/test/Checkpoints_tests.cpp b/src/test/Checkpoints_tests.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b7d368e13..0000000000
--- a/src/test/Checkpoints_tests.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2011-2015 The Bitcoin Core developers
-// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
-// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
-
-//
-// Unit tests for block-chain checkpoints
-//
-
-#include "checkpoints.h"
-
-#include "uint256.h"
-#include "test/test_bitcoin.h"
-#include "chainparams.h"
-
-#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>
-
-using namespace std;
-
-BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_SUITE(Checkpoints_tests, BasicTestingSetup)
-
-BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(sanity)
-{
-    const CCheckpointData& checkpoints = Params(CBaseChainParams::MAIN).Checkpoints();
-    BOOST_CHECK(Checkpoints::GetTotalBlocksEstimate(checkpoints) >= 134444);
-}
-
-BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE_END()