* [NOD-848] Optimize allocations when serializing UTXO diffs
* [NOD-848] Use same UTXO serialization everywhere, and use compression as well
* [NOD-848] Fix usage of wrong buffer
* [NOD-848] Fix tests
* [NOD-848] Fix wire tests
* [NOD-848] Fix tests
* [NOD-848] Remove VLQ
* [NOD-848] Fix comments
* [NOD-848] Add varint for big endian encoding
* [NOD-848] In TestVarIntWire, assume the expected decoded value is the same as the serialization input
* [NOD-848] Serialize outpoint index with big endian varint
* [NOD-848] Remove p2pk from compression support
* [NOD-848] Fix comments
* [NOD-848] Remove p2pk from decompression support
* [NOD-848] Make entry compression optional
* [NOD-848] Fix tests
* [NOD-848] Fix comments and var names
* [NOD-848] Remove UTXO compression
* [NOD-848] Fix tests
* [NOD-848] Remove big endian varint
* [NOD-848] Fix comments
* [NOD-848] Rename ReadVarIntLittleEndian->ReadVarInt and fix WriteVarInt comment
* [NOD-848] Add outpointIndexByteOrder variable
* [NOD-848] Remove redundant comment
* [NOD-848] Fix outpointMaxSerializeSize to the correct value
* [NOD-848] Move subBuffer to utils
* [NOD-641] Upgrade to github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1 and use errors.As where needed
* [NOD-641] Fix find and replace error
* [NOD-641] Use errors.As for error type checking
* [NOD-641] Fix errors.As for pointer types
* [NOD-641] Use errors.As where needed
* [NOD-641] Rename rErr->ruleErr
* [NOD-641] Rename derr->dbErr
* [NOD-641] e->flagsErr where necessary
* [NOD-641] change jerr to more appropriate name
* [NOD-641] Rename cerr->bdRuleErr
* [NOD-641] Rename serr->scriptErr
* [NOD-641] Use errors.Is instead of testutil.AreErrorsEqual in TestNewHashFromStr
* [NOD-641] Rename bdRuleErr->dagRuleErr
* [NOD-641] Rename mErr->msgErr
* [NOD-641] Rename dErr->deserializeErr
* [NOD-532] Change chain to DAG in the root package.
* [NOD-532] Change chain to DAG in checkpoints.go.
* [NOD-532] Change chain to DAG in blockdag.
* [NOD-532] Change chain to DAG in cmd.
* [NOD-532] Change chain to DAG in dagconfig.
* [NOD-532] Change chain to DAG in database.
* [NOD-532] Change chain to DAG in mempool.
* [NOD-532] Change chain to DAG in mempool.
* [NOD-532] Change chain to DAG in netsync.
* [NOD-532] Change chain to DAG in rpcclient.
* [NOD-532] Change chain to DAG in server.
* [NOD-532] Change chain to DAG in txscript.
* [NOD-532] Change chain to DAG in util.
* [NOD-532] Change chain to DAG in wire.
* [NOD-532] Remove block heights in dagio.go examples.
* [NOD-532] Rename fakeChain to fakeDAG.
* [NOD-532] Fix comments, remove unused EnableBCInfoHacks flag.
* [NOD-532] Fix comments and variable names.
* [NOD-532] Fix comments.
* [NOD-532] Fix merge errors.
* [NOD-532] Formatted project.
* [NOD-502] Remove checkpoints.
* [NOD-502] Remove remaining references to checkpoints.
* [NOD-500] Split RejectFinality to RejectDifficulty.
* [NOD-500] Remove support for headers-first in p2p.
* [NOD-500] Panic in newHashFromStr in case of an error.
* [NOD-208] Added blockBlueScore to UTXOEntry.
* [NOD-208] Added blueBlockScore to NewUTXOEntry.
* [NOD-208] Fixed compilation errors in policy, utxoset, and dag tests.
* [NOD-208] Changed validateBlockRewardMaturity and CheckTransactionInputsAndCalulateFee to use blueScore.
* [NOD-208] Changed CalcBlockSubsidy to use blueScore.
* [NOD-208] Changed SequenceLockActive to use blueScore.
* [NOD-208] Removed ExtractCoinbaseHeight.
* [NOD-208] Removed reference to block height in ensureNoDuplicateTx.
* [NOD-208] Changed IsFinalizedTransaction to use blueScore.
* [NOD-208] Fixed merge errors.
* [NOD-208] Made UTXOEntry serialization use blueScore.
* [NOD-208] Changed CalcPriority and calcInputValueAge to use blueScore.
* [NOD-208] Changed calcSequenceLock to use blueScore.
* [NOD-208] Removed blockChainHeight from UTXOEntry.
* [NOD-208] Fixed compilation errors in feeEstimator. Fixed a bug in the test pool hardness.
* [NOD-208] Fixed oldestChainBlockWithBlueScoreGreaterThan not handling an extreme case.
* [NOD-208] Fixed TestDiffFromTx.
* [NOD-208] Got rid of priority and support of free transactions.
* [NOD-208] Fixed TestProcessTransaction.
* [NOD-208] Fixed TestTxFeePrioHeap.
* [NOD-208] Fixed TestAddrIndex and TestFeeEstimatorCfg.
* [NOD-208] Removed unused rateLimit parameter from ProcessTransaction.
* [NOD-208] Fixed tests that rely on CreateTxChain.
* [NOD-208] Fixed tests that rely on CreateSignedTxForSubnetwork.
* [NOD-208] Fixed TestFetchTransaction.
* [NOD-208] Fixed TestHandleNewBlock. Fixed HandleNewBlock erroneously processing fee transactions.
* [NOD-208] Fixed TestTxIndexConnectBlock.
* [NOD-208] Removed the use of Height() from the fee estimator.
* [NOD-208] Removed unused methods from rpcwebsocket.go.
* [NOD-208] Removed Height from util.Block.
* [NOD-208] Removed ErrForkTooOld. It doesn't make sense in a DAG.
* [NOD-208] Made blockHeap use blueScore instead of height.
* [NOD-208] Removed fee estimator.
* [NOD-208] Removed DAG.Height.
* [NOD-208] Made TestAncestorErrors test chainHeight instead of height.
* [NOD-208] Fixed a couple of comments that were still speaking about block height.
* [NOD-208] Replaced all uses of HighestTipHash with SelectedTipHash.
* [NOD-208] Remove blockNode highest and some remaining erroneous uses of height.
* [NOD-208] Fixed a couple of comments. Fixed outPoint -> outpoint merge error.
* [NOD-208] Fixed a couple more comments.
* [NOD-208] Used calcMinRequiredTxRelayFee instead of DefaultMinRelayTxFee for mempool tests.
* [NOD-208] Renamed mempool Config BestHeight to DAGChainHeight.
* [NOD-208] Fixed a bug in oldestChainBlockWithBlueScoreGreaterThan. Made calcSequenceLock use the node's selected parent chain rather than the virtual block's.
* [NOD-208] Removed chainHeight from blockNode String().
Renamed checkpointsByHeight to checkpointsByChainHeight and prevCheckpointHeight to prevCheckpointChainHeight.
Removed reference to chainHeight in blockIndexKey.
Fixed comments in dagio.go.
* [NOD-208] Removed indexers/blocklogger.go, as no one was using it.
* [NOD-208] Made blocklogger.go log blueScore instead of height.
* [NOD-208] Fixed typo.
* [NOD-208] Fixed comments, did minor renaming.
* [NOD-208] Made a "common sense" wrapper around sort.Search.
* [NOD-208] Fixed comment in SearchSlice.
* [NOD-172] Port EMCH from bchd
* [NOD-172] Fix hdkeychain.TestErrors and add btcec.TestRecoverCompact
* [NOD-172] Make ECMH immutable
* [NOD-172] Fix gofmt errors
* [NOD-172] Add TestMultiset_NewMultisetFromDataSlice and fix Point to be immutable
* [NOD-172] Fix gofmt errors
* [NOD-172] Add test for checking that the Union of a multiset and its inverse is zero
* [NOD-179] Add ECMH Point to all UTXO-structs
* [NOD-179] Fix utxo set tests
* [NOD-179] Fix mempool tests
* [NOD-179] Remove RemoveTxOuts
* [NOD-179] Move serializeBlockUTXODiffData to the top of the file
* [NOD-179] Fix serializeBlockUTXODiffData comment format
* [NOD-179] Fix AddTx comment and name return values
* [NOD-144] Use chainHeight in SelectedAncestor, and update all logic that uses it
* [NOD-144] Moved UnminedHeight to blockdag, and updated all references
* [DEV-364] Add fee transactions validation
* [DEV-364] make NextBlockFeeTransactions for creating block templates
* [DEV-364] apply coinbase rules to fee transaction is some cases
* [DEV-364] Add comments
* [DEV-364] put getTXO as separate function
* [DEV-364] Make getParentsFeeData a separate function
* [DEV-364] fix calculateFees
* [DEV-364] force maximum sequence for fee transactions
* [DEV-364] add TestValidateFeeTransactions
* [DEV-364] change fee transaction to be one tx per block rather than one tx for each blue
* [DEV-364] fix tests
* [DEV-364] Use constants instead of inline numbers
* [DEV-92] Covered blocknode.go with tests.
* [DEV-92] Added test for blockSet.highest. Fixed a bug in it.
* [DEV-92] Added tests for blockSet.subtract and blockSet.addSet.
* [DEV-92] Covered blockset.go with tests.
* [DEV-92] Got rid of some old stuff related to STXOs.
* [DEV-92] Covered error.go with tests.
* [DEV-92] Covered utxoSet with tests.
* [DEV-92] Fixed formatting.
* [DEV-361] Create type TxID as alias to daghash.Hash. Use it for transaction IDs
* [DEV-361] Fixed missed renames
* [DEV-361] Removed usage of zeroHash
* [DEV-361] Fixed more missed renames
* [DEV-307] Implemented adding pending registry transactions.
* [DEV-307] Implemented a skeleton for the sub-network registry algorithm.
* [DEV-307] Implemented the serialization/deserialization logic for pending sub-network transactions.
* [DEV-307] Implemented marking sub-network registry transactions as successfully registered.
* [DEV-307] Implemented clearing pending sub-network entries and writing registered sub-networks.
* [DEV-307] Added comments for all the dagio functions.
* [DEV-307] Fixed a couple of bugs and added a test for checking serialization/deserialization of pending sub-network transactions.
* [DEV-307] Implemented getting a registered sub-network's gas limit.
* [DEV-307] Updated sub-network announcement transaction validation rules.
* [DEV-307] Specified what is validated.
* [DEV-307] Added initialization for lastSubNetworkID.
* [DEV-307] Renamed extractValidSubNetworkRegistryTxs to validateAndExtractSubNetworkRegistryTxs to better reflect what it does.
* Dev 303 implement block finality (#139)
* [DEV-303] Implement block finality
* [DEV-303] Add finality tests
* [DEV-303] Make finality tests use maybeAcceptBlock
* [DEV-303] Only check finality rules if we are fastAdd mode
* [DEV-303] replace hasBiggerFinalityScoreThan checks with .finalityScore()
* [DEV-307] Forgot to actually create the sub-network buckets.
* [DEV-307] Wrote a full-flow test for sub-network registry and fixed a couple of bugs that it had uncovered.
* [DEV-307] Took firstSubNetworkID out of dagconfig.Params. It's unnecessary there.
* [DEV-307] Added persistance for dag.lastSubNetworkID.
* [DEV-307] Moved sub-network stuff to their own files. Got rid of firstSubNetworkID. Replaced SubNetworkReservedLast with SubNetworkUnreservedFirst. Added ErrSubNetworkRegistry.
* [DEV-307] Added a newline at the end of dag_test.go.
* [DEV-307] Renamed previousFinalityPoint to initialFinalityPoint.
* [DEV-307] Moved sub-network IO stuff to subnetworks.go and subnetworks_test.go.
* [DEV-307] Merged dbPutRegisteredSubNetworkTx and dbRegisterSubNetwork. Fixed a too-big allocation and a block double-processing bug.
* [DEV-307] Simplified the serialized representation of a slice of transactions.
* [DEV-307] Fixed comments.
* [DEV-303] Implement block finality
* [DEV-303] Add finality tests
* [DEV-303] Make finality tests use maybeAcceptBlock
* [DEV-303] Only check finality rules if we are fastAdd mode
* [DEV-303] replace hasBiggerFinalityScoreThan checks with .finalityScore()
* [DEV-75] Removed fetchEntryByHash, which was no longer used.
* [DEV-75] Removed a few functions in manager.go that weren't used by anything.
* [DEV-75] checkConnectBlock will soon not accept a utxoViewpoint, so removed the call to view.Tip() so that it could be deleted.
* [DEV-75] Got rid of tips in UtxoViewpoint.
* [DEV-75] Added the full UTXO set to the virtual block.
* [DEV-75] Implemented UTXO-wrangling when adding a new block.
* [DEV-75] Added isCoinbase to utxoEntry creation.
* [DEV-75] Added blockHeight to utxoEntry creation.
* Implemented fetching the fullUTXOSet from the database.
* [DEV-75] Simplified DAGState because almost all of the state in it was unnecessary. Also got rid of dbDAGState.
* [DEV-75] Made the process around adding a new block, UTXO-wise, much safer.
* [DEV-75] Implemented melding the virtual UTXO diff to the database.
* [DEV-75] Fixed utxoSet loading from the wrong bucket.
* [DEV-75] Began pruning utxoviewpoint.go. Replaced FetchUtxoEntry with a fullUTXOSet-based GetUTXOEntry.
* [DEV-75] Removed fetchUtxos.
* [DEV-75] Moved GetUTXOEntry into the virtual block.
* [DEV-75] Updated IndexManager to not use utxoViewpoints.
* [DEV-75] Fixed some bad login in restoreUTXO involving nodeDiffs.
* [DEV-75] Got rid of the UTXO spend journal, which wasn't used anywhere.
* [DEV-75] Moved some STXO-related validation logic out of connectToDAG and into checkConnectBlock.
* [DEV-75] Renamed UtxoXxx to UTXOXxx. Removed a bunch of methods that were no longer used by anything.
* [DEV-75] Another Utxo -> UTXO rename.
* [DEV-75] Removed IsModified from UTXOView, which was not used anywhere.
* [DEV-75] Renamed nodeDiff to provisionalNode. Added a bunch of comments.
* [DEV-75] Removed the test for genesis in pastUTXO, since it can never happen.
* [DEV-75] Wrote tests for errors in pastUTXO.
* [DEV-75] Wrote tests for errors in restoreUTXO.
* [DEV-75] Improved testErrorThroughPatching.
* [DEV-75] Wrote tests for errors in verifyAndBuildUTXO.
* [DEV-75] Used TipHashes instead of tips().hashes(), fixed comments in a few places, and brought back an error return that I erroneously removed.
* [DEV-75] Removed UTXO set logs.
* [DEV-75] Recreated add/remove/contains functions for utxoCollection.
* [DEV-75] Changed newUTXOEntry to use an object initializer.
* [DEV-75] Changed the UTXO bucket version to 1.
* Added a comment that clarifies that the index is not initialized before initDAGState is called.
* [DEV-75] Renamed GetVirtualBlock to VirtualBlock.
* [DEV-75] Removed superfluous variables.
* [DEV-75] Combined connectBlockToParents with updateParentsDiffs.
* [DEV-75] Removed another superfluous variable.
* [DEV-75] In pastUTXO, first fetch transactions from the database and only then add them.
* [DEV-75] Reworded the comment for commit().
* [DEV-75] Made all the connectUTXO subfunctions not BlockDAG methods.
* [DEV-75] Updated the comment for connectUTXO.
* [DEV-75] Updated the comment explaining why we're creating provisionalNodes.
* [DEV-75] Removed a couple of unnecessary calls to toProvisionalNode.
* [DEV-75] Renamed connectUTXO to applyUTXOChanges.
* [DEV-75] Replaced allProvisionalNodes with provisionalNodeSet, an object that holds provisionalNodes for this particular call to applyUTXOChanges.
* [DEV-75] Changed createProvisionalNode to accept a boolean "withParents" instead of relying on the caller to supply the node's parents or an empty set.
* [DEV-75] Made most applyUTXOChanges subfunctions be methods on provisionalNode.
* [DEV-75] Fixed a couple of bad comments.
* [DEV-75] Added descriptive error messages to callers of applyUTXOChanges.
* [DEV-75] Fixed weird English.
* [DEV-75] Replaced DAGState with a slice of DAG tip hashes.
* [DEV-75] In createProvisionalNode, changed withParents to withRelatives to avoid certain kinds of attacks.
* [DEV-75] Renamed createdProvisionalNode to newProvisionalNode.
* [DEV-75] Added precalculating the amount of transactions inside a new block's blue set.
* [DEV-75] Pruned unnecessary variable.
* [DEV-74] Implemented and written tests for utxoIterator.
* [DEV-74] Improved utxoIterator tests.
* [DEV-74] Implemented utxoCollection tests.
* [DEV-74] Implemented utxoDiff and its tests.
* [DEV-74] Implemented utxoSet.
* [DEV -74] Added tests for fullUTXOSet.
* [DEV-74] Added some tests for diffUTXOSet.
* [DEV-74] Wrote tests for diffUTXOSet iterator.
* [DEV-74] Added a negative test for diffUTXOSet.withDiff.
* [DEV-74] Wrote tests for addTx.
* [DEV-74] Wrote a toRemove test for addTx.
* [DEV-74] Changed blockNode.utxoDiff to be of type utxoDiff.
* [DEV-74] Removed superfluous whitespace.
* [DEV-74] Renamed confusing "previousHash" to "hash".
* [DEV-74] Fixed bad test and corrected failing test.
* [DEV-74] Moved confusing "negatives" test to be part of the general utxoCollection test.
* [DEV-74] Removed utxoDiff.inverted.
* [DEV-74] Renamed blockNode.utxoDiff to blockNode.diff.
* [DEV-74] Renamed diff to diffFrom for clarity's sake.
* [DEV-74] Converted the type of utxoCollection from map[daghash.Hash]map[uint32]*wire.TxOut to map[wire.OutPoint]*UtxoEntry.
* [DEV-74] Corrected test names in utxoCollection_test.
* [DEV-74] Removed superfluous utxoCollection iterator and moved utxoIterator into utxoset.go.
* [DEV-74] Renamed variables in utxoset.go.
* [DEV-74] Renamed verifyTx to areInputsInUTXO and removed a superfulous test.
* [DEV-74] Fixed bad test logic in TestDiffUTXOSet_addTx.
* [DEV-74] Added a few comments. Added reference-equals checks to clone functions.
* [DEV-74] Moved utxoCollection and utxoDiff into utxoset.go.
* [DEV-74] Wrote explanations for utxoCollection and utxoDiff tests.
* [DEV-74] Wrote explanations for all utxoSet tests besides addTx.
* [DEV-74] Wrote explanations for TestDiffUTXOSet_addTx.
* [DEV-74] Moved the documentation for utxoDiff into utxoset.go.
* [DEV-74] Wrote an explanation on utxoSet.
* [DEV-75] Found a typo.
* [DEV-75] Renamed dag -> virtual, dagView -> virtualBlock.
* [DEV-75] Renamed newDAGView to newVirtualBlock.
* [DEV-75] Moved queries for the genesis block from virtualBlock to BlockDAG.
* [DEV-75] Got rid of chainView height and findFork.
* [DEV-75] Renamed receivers from c to v.
* [DEV-75] Updated initBlockNode to allow for virtual (headerless) nodes, updated dbDAGState to contain multiple tip hashes, implemented virtualBlock.setTips.
* [DEV-75] Got rid of virtualBlock.equals, which was not used anywhere.
* [DEV-75] Got rid of virtualBlock.tip().
* [DEV-75] Got rid of SetTip everywhere except for tests.
* [DEV-75] Got rid of Next().
* [DEV-75] Got rid of Contains().
* [DEV-75] Got rid of HeightRange(), as no one was using it.
* [DEV-75] Made verifyDAG in rpcserver.go not use block height for iteration.
* [DEV-75] Got rid of the part of Manager.Init() that handled "catching up" for side chains, which allowed me to get rid of BlockDAG.BlockByHeight().
* [DEV-75] Dropped support for the RPC command getblockhash since it was getting blocks by their height.
* [DEV-75] Dropped getnetworkhashps since it was reliant on height, fixed another couple of RPC commands to return nextHashes instead of a nextHash, and got rid of nodeByHeight in virtualBlock.
* [DEV-75] Got rid of setTip().
* [DEV-75] Moved blockLocator() out of virtualBlock and into BlockDAG. Also removed TestLocateInventory().
* [DEV-75] Implemented addTip().
* [DEV-75] Cleaned up virtualblock.go a bit.
* [DEV-75] Erased irrelevant tests in virtualblock_test.go. Moved dag-related tests into dag_test.go.
* [DEV-75] Removed unnecessary nil check.
* [DEV-75] Wrote tests for virtualBlock.
* [DEV-75] Fixed bad test, added explanations to tests.
* [DEV-89] Fixed a comment.
* [DEV-89] Fixed another comment.
* [DEV-89] Removed the section in Manager::Init that handled rolling back indexes to the main chain if their tip is an orphaned fork. This could only happen during reorg, which no longer exists. Also removed BlockDAG::MainChainHasBlock, which was no longer used by anyone.
* [DEV-89] Removed the nil check inside initBlockNode() and amended the one place that called it with nil.
* [DEV-89] Renamed the receiver param for BlockDAG from b to dag.
* [DEV-89] Moved fastLog2Floor from dag.go to btcutil/btcmath.go.
* [DEV-89] Renamed tstTip to testTip.
* [DEV-89] Renamed phanom_test.go to phantom_test.go.
* [DEV-89] Fixed comments, renamed mainChainHeight to dagHeight.
* [DEV-89] Rewrote virtualBlock.addTip().
* [DEV-89] Fixed a comment. (chain -> DAG)
* [DEV-89] Fixed another chain -> DAG comment.
* [DEV-65] Renamed BestState to State and GetSnapshot to GetCurrentState.
* [DEV-65] Implemented State and SelectedTip, updated dagState (the serializable version of State), and updated State creations.
* [DEV-65] Fixed references to GetCurrentState and fixed tests.
* [DEV-65] Renamed State to DAGState, corrected comments, created a new thread-safe method setDAGState, fixed broken references I missed.
* [DEV-65] Converted dagState (the object) to dbDAGState, and made it serialize/deserialize into/out of JSON.
* [DEV-65] Renamed Txns to Txs and fixed a couple of comments.
* [DEV-65] Renamed some more "Txns" and removed some dead code.
