Headers-first synchronization

Many changes:
* Do not use 'getblocks', but 'getheaders', and use it to build a headers tree.
* Blocks are fetched in parallel from all available outbound peers, using a
  limited moving window. When one peer stalls the movement of the window, it is
  disconnected.
* No more orphan blocks. At all. We only ever request a block for which we have
  verified the headers, and store it to disk immediately. This means that a
  disk-fill attack would require PoW.
* Require protocol version 31800 for every peer (released in december 2010).
* No more syncnode (we sync from everyone we can, though limited to 1 during
  initial *headers* sync).
* Introduce some extra named constants, comments and asserts.
This commit is contained in:
Pieter Wuille
2014-07-12 00:02:35 +02:00
parent 992ab87114
commit 341735eb8f
9 changed files with 375 additions and 370 deletions

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@@ -611,7 +611,6 @@ void RPCConsole::updateNodeDetail(const CNodeCombinedStats *stats)
ui->peerSubversion->setText(QString::fromStdString(stats->nodeStats.cleanSubVer));
ui->peerDirection->setText(stats->nodeStats.fInbound ? tr("Inbound") : tr("Outbound"));
ui->peerHeight->setText(QString("%1").arg(stats->nodeStats.nStartingHeight));
ui->peerSyncNode->setText(stats->nodeStats.fSyncNode ? tr("Yes") : tr("No"));
// This check fails for example if the lock was busy and
// nodeStateStats couldn't be fetched.