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authorJohn Newbery <[email protected]>2018-01-31 13:47:06 -0500
committerJohn Newbery <[email protected]>2018-02-02 09:29:33 -0500
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Document method for reviewers to verify chainTxData
This commit adds the final block hash of the window to getchaintxstats and documents how reviewers can verify changes to chainTxData.
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Before every major release:
* Update hardcoded [seeds](/contrib/seeds/README.md), see [this pull request](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7415) for an example.
* Update [`BLOCK_CHAIN_SIZE`](/src/qt/intro.cpp) to the current size plus some overhead.
* Update `src/chainparams.cpp` chainTxData with statistics about the transaction count and rate. Use the output of the RPC `getchaintxstats`, see
- [this pull request](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12270) for an example.
+ [this pull request](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12270) for an example. Reviewers can verify the results by running `getchaintxstats <window_block_count> <window_last_block_hash>` with the `window_block_count` and `window_last_block_hash` from your output.
* Update version of `contrib/gitian-descriptors/*.yml`: usually one'd want to do this on master after branching off the release - but be sure to at least do it before a new major release
### First time / New builders