525e9dcba0 Add submitSolution to BlockTemplate interface (Sjors Provoost)
47b4875ef0 Add getCoinbaseMerklePath() to Mining interface (Sjors Provoost)
63d6ad7c89 Move BlockMerkleBranch back to merkle.{h,cpp} (Sjors Provoost)
Pull request description:
The new `BlockTemplate` interface introduced in #30440 allows for a more efficient way for a miner to submit the block solution. Instead of having the send the full block, it only needs to provide the nonce, timestamp, version fields and coinbase transaction.
This PR introduces `submitSolution()` for that. It's currently unused.
#29432 and https://github.com/Sjors/bitcoin/pull/48 use it to process the Stratum v2 message [SubmitSolution](https://github.com/stratum-mining/sv2-spec/blob/main/07-Template-Distribution-Protocol.md#77-submitsolution-client---server). The method should be sufficiently generic to work with alternative mining protocols (none exist that I'm aware off).
This PR also introduces `getCoinbaseMerklePath()`, which is needed in Stratum v2 to construct the `merkle_path` field of the `NewTemplate` message (see [spec](https://github.com/stratum-mining/sv2-spec/blob/main/07-Template-Distribution-Protocol.md#72-newtemplate-server---client)). The coinbase merkle path is also used in Stratum "v1", see e.g. https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/109820/questions-on-merkle-root-hashing-for-stratum-pools
This last function uses `BlockMerkleBranch` which was moved to the test code in #13191. The reason back then for moving it was that it was no longer used. This PR moves it back.
This PR does not change behaviour since both methods are unused.
ACKs for top commit:
achow101:
ACK 525e9dcba0
itornaza:
Code review ACK 525e9dcba0
tdb3:
Code review and light test ACK 525e9dcba0
ryanofsky:
Code review ACK 525e9dcba0. Left minor suggestions but none are important, and looks like this could be merged as-is
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The src/node/ directory contains code that needs to access node state
(state in CChain, CBlockIndex, CCoinsView, CTxMemPool, and similar
classes).
Code in src/node/ is meant to be segregated from code in
src/wallet/ and src/qt/, to ensure wallet and GUI
code changes don't interfere with node operation, to allow wallet and GUI code
to run in separate processes, and to perhaps eventually allow wallet and GUI
code to be maintained in separate source repositories.
As a rule of thumb, code in one of the src/node/,
src/wallet/, or src/qt/ directories should avoid
calling code in the other directories directly, and only invoke it indirectly
through the more limited src/interfaces/ classes.
This directory is at the moment
sparsely populated. Eventually more substantial files like
src/validation.cpp and
src/txmempool.cpp might be moved there.
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