Replace BIP34: Require height commitment in the generation transactions's locktime instead #3
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| // Enforce rule that the coinbase starts with serialized block height | ||
| if (nHeight >= consensusParams.BIP34Height) | ||
| { | ||
| if (block.nTime >= consensusParams.HardforkTime) { |
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This is just part of a larger hardfork. The height isn't known at header-validation time.
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how is the height not known at header-validation time? Don't you know the height of your predecessor block?
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I'm referring to CheckBlockHeader, not ContextualCheckBlockHeader. This would mean we cannot verify the PoW until we have the block context, which could possibly (?) make a DoS vector. (But maybe some restructuring of the code to ignore all headers without context makes sense?)
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In any case, there's little harm to using time here. This is intended to only be deployed after the final SHA2 block is found, which means there is a very well-defined time to specify (in fact, PR #2 requires the time specified is exactly the second after the final SHA2 block). No real benefit to using height.
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