Before this change continuing a reindex without the -reindex flag set
would leave the block and coins db intact, but discard the data of the
optional indexes. While not a bug per se, wiping the data again is
wasteful, both in terms of having to write it again, and potentially
leading to longer startup times.
When initially running a reindex, both the block index and any further
activated indexes are wiped. On an index's Init(), both the best block
stored by the index and the chain's tip are null. An index's m_synced
member is therefore true. This means that it will process blocks through
validation events while the reindex is running.
Currently, if the reindex is continued without the user re-specifying
the reindex flag, the block index is preserved but further index data is
wiped. This leads to the stored best block being null, but the chain tip
existing. The m_synced member will be set to false. The index will not
process blocks through the validation interface, but instead use the
background sync once the reindex is completed.
If the index is preserved (this change) after a restart its best block
may potentially match the chain tip. The m_synced member will be set to
true and the index can process validation events during the rest of the
reindex.
Drop confusing kernel options:
BlockManagerOpts::reindex
ChainstateLoadOptions::reindex
ChainstateLoadOptions::reindex_chainstate
Replacing them with more straightforward options:
ChainstateLoadOptions::wipe_block_tree_db
ChainstateLoadOptions::wipe_chainstate_db
Having two options called "reindex" which did slightly different things
was needlessly confusing (one option wiped the block tree database, and
the other caused block files to be rescanned). Also the previous set of
options did not allow rebuilding the block database without also
rebuilding the chainstate database, when it should be possible to do
those independently.
It does not control any actual logic and the log message as well as the
comment are obsolete, since no database initialization takes place there
anymore. Log messages indicating when indexes and chainstate databases
are loaded exist in other places.
Reverts a bug introduced in b47bd95920
"kernel: De-globalize fReindex". The change leads to a GUI user being
prompted to re-index on a chainstate loading failure more than once as
well as the node actually not reindexing if the user chooses to. Fix
this by setting the reindexing option instead of the atomic, which can
be safely re-used to indicate that a reindex should be attempted.
The bug specifically is caused by the chainman, and thus the blockman
and its m_reindexing atomic being destroyed on every iteration of
the for loop.
The reindex option for ChainstateLoadOptions is currently also set in a
confusing way. By using the reindex atomic, it is not obvious in which
scenario it is true or false.
The atomic is controlled by both the user passing the -reindex option,
the user chosing to reindex if something went wrong during chainstate
loading when running the gui, and by reading the reindexing flag from
the block tree database in LoadBlockIndexDB. In practice this read is
done through the chainstate module's CompleteChainstateInitialization's
call to LoadBlockIndex. Since this is only done after the reindex option
is set already, it does not have an effect on it.
Make this clear by using the reindex option from the blockman opts which
is only controlled by the user.
b47bd95920 kernel: De-globalize fReindex (TheCharlatan)
Pull request description:
fReindex is one of the last remaining globals exposed by the kernel library, so move it into the blockstorage class to reduce the amount of global mutable state and make the kernel library a bit less awkward to use.
---
This pull request is part of the [libbitcoinkernel project](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/27587).
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Code review ACK b47bd95920. I rereviewed the whole PR, but the only change since last review was reverting the bugfix https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29817#discussion_r1578327024 and make the change a pure refactoring.
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9408a04e42 tests, fuzz: use new NUMS_H const (josibake)
b946f8a4c5 crypto: add NUMS_H const (josibake)
Pull request description:
Broken out from #28122
---
[BIP341](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0341.mediawiki#constructing-and-spending-taproot-outputs) defines a NUMS point `H` as *H = lift_x(0x50929b74c1a04954b78b4b6035e97a5e078a5a0f28ec96d547bfee9ace803ac0)* which is [constructed](11af7015de/src/modules/rangeproof/main_impl.h (L16)) by taking the hash of the standard uncompressed encoding of the [secp256k1](https://www.secg.org/sec2-v2.pdf) base point G as X coordinate."
Add this as a constant so it can be used in our codebase. My primary motivation is BIP352 specifies a special case for when taproot spends use `H` as the internal key, but outside of BIP352 it seems generally useful to have `H` in the codebase, for testing or other use cases.
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e41667b720 blockstorage: Don't move cursor backwards in UpdateBlockInfo (Ryan Ofsky)
17103637c6 blockstorage: Rename FindBlockPos and have it return a FlatFilePos (Martin Zumsande)
d9e477c4dc validation, blockstorage: Separate code paths for reindex and saving new blocks (Martin Zumsande)
064859bbad blockstorage: split up FindBlockPos function (Martin Zumsande)
fdae638e83 doc: Improve doc for functions involved in saving blocks to disk (Martin Zumsande)
0d114e3cb2 blockstorage: Add Assume for fKnown / snapshot chainstate (Martin Zumsande)
Pull request description:
`SaveBlockToDisk` / `FindBlockPos` are used for two purposes, depending on whether they are called during reindexing (`dbp` set, `fKnown = true`) or in the "normal" case when adding new blocks (`dbp == nullptr`, `fKnown = false`).
The actual tasks are quite different
- In normal mode, preparations for saving a new block are made, which is then saved: find the correct position on disk (maybe skipping to a new blk file), check for available disk space, update the blockfile info db, save the block.
- during reindex, most of this is not necessary (the block is already on disk after all), only the blockfile info needs to rebuilt because reindex wiped the leveldb it's saved in.
Using one function with many conditional statements for this leads to code that is hard to read / understand and bug-prone:
- many code paths in `FindBlockPos` are conditional on `fKnown` or `!fKnown`
- It's not really clear what actually needs to be done during reindex (we don't need to "save a block to disk" or "find a block pos" as the function names suggest)
- logic that should be applied to only one of the two modes is sometimes applied to both (see first commit, or #27039)
#24858 and #27039 were recent bugs directly related to the differences between reindexing and normal mode, and in both cases the simple fix took a long time to be reviewed and merged.
This PR proposes to clean this code up by splitting out the reindex logic into a separate function (`UpdateBlockInfo`) which will be called directly from validation. As a result, `SaveBlockToDisk` and `FindBlockPos` only need to cover the non-reindex logic.
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cbc6c440e3 doc: add comments and release-notes for JSON-RPC 2.0 (Matthew Zipkin)
e7ee80dcf2 rpc: JSON-RPC 2.0 should not respond to "notifications" (Matthew Zipkin)
bf1a1f1662 rpc: Avoid returning HTTP errors for JSON-RPC 2.0 requests (Matthew Zipkin)
466b90562f rpc: Add "jsonrpc" field and drop null "result"/"error" fields (Matthew Zipkin)
2ca1460ae3 rpc: identify JSON-RPC 2.0 requests (Matthew Zipkin)
a64a2b77e0 rpc: refactor single/batch requests (Matthew Zipkin)
df6e3756d6 rpc: Avoid copies in JSONRPCReplyObj() (Matthew Zipkin)
09416f9ec4 test: cover JSONRPC 2.0 requests, batches, and notifications (Matthew Zipkin)
4202c170da test: refactor interface_rpc.py (Matthew Zipkin)
Pull request description:
Closes https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/2960
Bitcoin Core's JSONRPC server behaves with a special blend of 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 behaviors. This introduces compliance issues with more strict clients. There are the major misbehaviors that I found:
- returning non-200 HTTP codes for RPC errors like "Method not found" (this is not a server error or an HTTP error)
- returning both `"error"` and `"result"` fields together in a response object.
- different error-handling behavior for single and batched RPC requests (batches contain errors in the response but single requests will actually throw HTTP errors)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15495 added regression tests after a discussion in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15381 to kinda lock in our RPC behavior to preserve backwards compatibility.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12435 was an attempt to allow strict 2.0 compliance behind a flag, but was abandoned.
The approach in this PR is not strict and preserves backwards compatibility in a familiar bitcoin-y way: all old behavior is preserved, but new rules are applied to clients that opt in. One of the rules in the [JSON RPC 2.0 spec](https://www.jsonrpc.org/specification#request_object) is that the kv pair `"jsonrpc": "2.0"` must be present in the request. Well, let's just use that to trigger strict 2.0 behavior! When that kv pair is included in a request object, the [response will adhere to strict JSON-RPC 2.0 rules](https://www.jsonrpc.org/specification#response_object), essentially:
- always return HTTP 200 "OK" unless there really is a server error or malformed request
- either return `"error"` OR `"result"` but never both
- same behavior for single and batch requests
If this is merged next steps can be:
- Refactor bitcoin-cli to always use strict 2.0
- Refactor the python test framework to always use strict 2.0 for everything
- Begin deprecation process for 1.0/1.1 behavior (?)
If we can one day remove the old 1.0/1.1 behavior we can clean up the rpc code quite a bit.
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Code review ACK cbc6c440e3. Just suggested changes since the last review: changing uncaught exception error code from PARSE_ERROR to MISC_ERROR, renaming a few things, and adding comments.
tdb3:
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fReindex is one of the last remaining globals exposed by the kernel
library, so move it into the blockstorage class to reduce the amount of
global mutable state and make the kernel library a bit less awkward to
use.
d0b047494c test: add GetAddedNodeInfo() CJDNS regression unit test (Jon Atack)
684da97070 p2p, bugfix: detect addnode cjdns peers in GetAddedNodeInfo() (Jon Atack)
Pull request description:
Addnode peers connected to us via the cjdns network are currently not detected by `CConnman::GetAddedNodeInfo()`, i.e. `fConnected` is always false. This causes the following issues:
- RPC `getaddednodeinfo` incorrectly shows them as not connected
- `CConnman::ThreadOpenAddedConnections()` continually retries to connect them
Fix the issue and add a unit regression test. Extracted from #28248. Suggest running the test with:
`./src/test/test_bitcoin -t net_peer_connection_tests -l test_suite`
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141df0a288 crypto: disable asan for sha256_sse4 with clang and -O0 (Cory Fields)
Pull request description:
Clang is unable to compile the Transform function for that combination of options.
Fixes#29801.
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8d491ae9ec serialization: Add ParamsStream GetStream() method (Ryan Ofsky)
951203bcc4 net: Simplify ParamsStream usage (Ryan Ofsky)
e6794e475c serialization: Accept multiple parameters in ParamsStream constructor (Ryan Ofsky)
cb28849a88 serialization: Reverse ParamsStream constructor order (Ryan Ofsky)
83436d14f0 serialization: Drop unnecessary ParamsStream references (Ryan Ofsky)
84502b755b serialization: Drop references to GetVersion/GetType (Ryan Ofsky)
f3a2b52376 serialization: Support for multiple parameters (Ryan Ofsky)
Pull request description:
Currently it is only possible to attach one serialization parameter to a stream at a time. For example, it is not possible to set a parameter controlling the transaction format and a parameter controlling the address format at the same time because one parameter will override the other.
This limitation is inconvenient for multiprocess code since it is not possible to create just one type of stream and serialize any object to it. Instead it is necessary to create different streams for different object types, which requires extra boilerplate and makes using the new parameter fields a lot more awkward than the older version and type fields.
Fix this problem by allowing an unlimited number of serialization stream parameters to be set, and allowing them to be requested by type. Later parameters will still override earlier parameters, but only if they have the same type.
For an example of different ways multiple parameters can be set, see the new [`with_params_multi`](40f505583f/src/test/serialize_tests.cpp (L394-L410)) unit test.
This change requires replacing the `stream.GetParams()` method with a `stream.GetParams<T>()` method in order for serialization code to retrieve the desired parameters. The change is more verbose, but probably a good thing for readability because previously it could be difficult to know what type the `GetParams()` method would return, and now it is more obvious.
---
This PR is part of the [process separation project](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/28722).
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cccddc03f0 Wallet encrypt on create, allow to navigate options (Hernan Marino)
Pull request description:
This fixes https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui/issues/394.
It adds a "Go back" button to the "Confirm wallet encryption" window, allowing the users to change the password if they want to. It also adds a Cancel button to the "Wallet to be encrypted" window.
Prior to this change users had no option to alter the password, and were forced to either go ahead with wallet creation or cancel the whole process. Also, at the final window, they were shown a warning but with no option to cancel.
The new workflow for wallet encryption and creation is similar to the following:
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0fb17bf61a [log] updates in TxOrphanage (glozow)
b16da7eda7 [functional test] attackers sending mutated orphans (glozow)
6675f6428d [unit test] TxOrphanage handling of same-txid-different-witness txns (glozow)
8923edfc1f [p2p] allow entries with the same txid in TxOrphanage (glozow)
c31f148166 [refactor] TxOrphanage::EraseTx by wtxid (glozow)
efcc593017 [refactor] TxOrphanage::HaveTx only by wtxid (glozow)
7e475b9648 [p2p] don't query orphanage by txid (glozow)
Pull request description:
Part of #27463 in the "make orphan handling more robust" section.
Currently the main map in `TxOrphanage` is indexed by txid; we do not allow 2 transactions with the same txid into TxOrphanage. This means that if we receive a transaction and want to store it in orphanage, we'll fail to do so if a same-txid-different-witness version of the tx already exists in the orphanage. The existing orphanage entry can stay until it expires 20 minutes later, or until we find that it is invalid.
This means an attacker can try to block/delay us accepting an orphan transaction by sending a mutated version of the child ahead of time. See included test.
Prior to #28970, we don't rely on the orphanage for anything and it would be relatively difficult to guess what transaction will go to a node's orphanage. After the parent(s) are accepted, if anybody sends us the correct transaction, we'll end up accepting it. However, this is a bit more painful for 1p1c: it's easier for an attacker to tell when a tx is going to hit a node's orphanage, and we need to store the correct orphan + receive the parent before we'll consider the package. If we start out with a bad orphan, we can't evict it until we receive the parent + try the 1p1c, and then we'll need to download the real child, put it in orphanage, download the parent again, and then retry 1p1c.
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fa90ad23c0 ci: Roll test-each-commit Ubuntu (MarcoFalke)
fa6c82dd9b ci: Remove clang version pin in test-each-commit (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Needed for https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29077#issuecomment-2099704210
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12d82817bf refactor: simplify `FormatSubVersion` using strprintf/Join (Sebastian Falbesoner)
Pull request description:
Rather than using std::ostringstream and manually joining the comments, use strprintf and our own `Join` helper.
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hebasto:
ACK 12d82817bf, I have reviewed the code and it looks OK.
tdb3:
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b59a027d95 contrib: drop dead get_machine from test sym check (fanquake)
e6aba463ad contrib: use env_flags in get_arch (fanquake)
Pull request description:
This isn't an issue right now (because the get_arch check is simple), but becomes one as soon as we want to use `lld` for linking, and need LDFLAGS (otherwise we call `ld` and fail, see it's usage in #21778). So I've split this out for review. It also makes sense to use the same flags for all compilation in these checks.
Also drops some dead code in test-symbol-check.
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cc67d33fda refactor: Simply include CTxMemPool::Options in CTxMemPool directly rather than duplicating definition (Luke Dashjr)
Pull request description:
Instead of duplicating mempool options two places, just include the Options struct directly on the CTxMemPool
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Previously, it was possible to move the cursor back to an older file
during reindex if blocks are enocuntered out of order during reindex.
This would mean that MaxBlockfileNum() would be incorrect, and
a wrong DB_LAST_BLOCK could be written to disk.
This improves the logic by only ever moving the cursor forward (if possible)
but not backwards.
Co-authored-by: Martin Zumsande <mzumsande@gmail.com>
The new name reflects that it is no longer called with existing blocks
for which the position is already known.
Returning a FlatFilePos directly simplifies the interface.
By calling SaveBlockToDisk only when we actually want to save a new
block to disk. In the reindex case, we now call UpdateBlockInfo
directly from validation.
This commit doesn't change behavior.
FindBlockPos does different things depending on whether the block is known
or not, as shown by the fact that much of the existing code is conditional on fKnown set or not.
If the block position is known (during reindex) the function only updates the block info
statistics. It doesn't actually find a block position in this case.
This commit removes fKnown and splits up these two code paths by introducing a separate function
for the reindex case when the block position is known.
It doesn't change behavior.
For JSON-RPC 2.0 requests we need to distinguish between
a missing "id" field and "id":null. This is accomplished
by making the JSONRPCRequest id property a
std::optional<UniValue> with a default value of
UniValue::VNULL.
A side-effect of this change for non-2.0 requests is that request which do not
specify an "id" field will no longer return "id": null in the response.
d4b17c7d46 kernel: Remove batchpriority from kernel library (TheCharlatan)
Pull request description:
The current usage of ScheduleBatchPriority is not transparent. Once the thread scheduling is changed, it remains unchanged for the remainder of the thread's lifetime. So move the call from `ImportBlocks` to the init code where it is clearer that its effect lasts for the entire lifetime of the thread.
Users of the kernel library might not expect `ImportBlocks` to have an influence on the thread it is called in. Particularly since it is only a compile time option and cannot be controlled at runtime. With this patch users of the kernel library can now freely choose their own scheduling policy.
This PR is easier reviewed with `git diff --color-moved-ws=ignore-all-space --color-moved=dimmed-zebra`
---
This PR is part of the [libbitcoinkernel project](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/27587).
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hebasto:
ACK d4b17c7d46, I have reviewed the code and it looks OK.
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Avoid returning HTTP status errors for non-batch JSON-RPC 2.0 requests if the
RPC method failed but the HTTP request was otherwise valid. Batch requests
already did not return HTTP errors previously.
Index by wtxid instead of txid to allow entries with the same txid but
different witnesses in orphanage. This prevents an attacker from
blocking a transaction from entering the orphanage by sending a mutated
version of it.
The current usage of ScheduleBatchPriority is not transparent. Once the
thread scheduling is changed, it remains unchanged for the remainder of
the thread's lifetime. So move the call from `ImportBlocks` to the init
code where it is clearer that its effect lasts for the entire lifetime
of the thread.
Users of the kernel library might not expect `ImportBlocks` to have an
influence on the thread it is called in. Particularly since it is only a
compile time option and cannot be controlled at runtime. With this patch
users of the kernel library can now choose their own scheduling policy.
019ad7327c depends: set RANLIB for CMake (fanquake)
43cfb428cb depends: set NM for CMake (fanquake)
1e4412b317 depends: set AR for CMake (fanquake)
Pull request description:
Needed for #21778. Should be more correct in any case.
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TheCharlatan:
ACK 019ad7327c
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4a6d1d1e3b validation: don't clear cache on periodic flush (Andrew Toth)
Pull request description:
Since https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/17487 we no longer need to clear the coins cache when syncing to disk. A warm coins cache significantly speeds up block connection, and only needs to be fully flushed when nearing the `dbcache` limit.
Periodic flushes occur every 24 hours, which empties the cache and causes block connection to slow down. By keeping the cache through periodic flushes a node can run for several days with an increasingly hotter cache and connect blocks much more quickly. Now not only can setting a higher `dbcache` value be beneficial for IBD, it can also be beneficial for connecting blocks faster.
To benchmark in real world usage, I spun up 6 identical `t2.small` AWS EC2 instances, all running in the same region in the same VPC. I configured 2 instances to run master, 2 instances to run the change in this PR, and 2 instances to run the change in this PR but with `dbcache=1000`. All instances had `prune=5000` and a 20 GB `gp2` `EBS` volume. A 7th EC2 instance in the same VPC ran master and connected only to some trusted nodes in the outside network. Each of the 6 nodes under test only connected directly to this 7th instance. I manually pruned as much as possible and uploaded the same `blocks`, `chainstate` and `mempool.dat` to all instances. I started all 6 peers simultaneously at block height `835245` and ran them for over a week until block `836534`.
The results were much faster block connection times for this branch compared to master, and much faster for this branch with `dbcache=1000` compared to default `dbcache`.
| branch |speed |
|-----------:|----------:|
| master 1 | 1995.49ms/blk |
| master 2 | 2129.78ms/blk |
| branch default dbcache 1 | 1189.65ms/blk |
| branch default dbcache 2 | 1037.74ms/blk |
| branch dbcache=1000 1 | 393.69ms/blk |
| branch dbcache=1000 2 | 427.77ms/blk |
The log files of all 6 instances are [here](https://gist.github.com/andrewtoth/03c95033e7581d5dbc5be028639a1a91).
There is a lot of noise with the exact times of blocks being connected, so I plotted the rolling 20 block connect time averages. The large dots are the times where the cache is emptied. For the red master nodes, this happens every 24 hours. The blue branch nodes with default `dbcache` only filled up and emptied the caches once, which is seen in the middle. The green branch nodes with 1000 `dbcache` never emptied the cache. It is very clear from the chart that whenever the cache is emptied, connect block speed degrades significantly.
Also note that this still clears the cache for pruning flushes. Having frequent pruning flushes with a large cache that doesn't clear is less performant than the status quo https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15265#issuecomment-458657451. See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28280.
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b77bad309e rpc: move UniValue in blockToJSON (willcl-ark)
Pull request description:
Fixes: #24542Fixes: #30052
Without explicitly declaring the move, these `UniValues` get copied, causing increased memory usage. Fix this by explicitly moving the `UniValue` objects.
Used by `rest_block` and `getblock` RPC.
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58594c7040 fuzz: txorphan tests fixups (Sergi Delgado Segura)
Pull request description:
Motivated by https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28970#discussion_r1576401327
Adds the following fixups in txorphan fuzz tests:
- Don't bond the output count of the created orphans to the number of available coins
- Allow duplicate inputs but don't store duplicate outpoints
Most significantly, this gets rid of the `duplicate_input` flag altogether, making the test easier to reason about. Notice how, under normal conditions, duplicate inputs would be caught by `MemPoolAccept::PreChecks`, however, no validations checks are run on the test before adding data to the orphanage (neither were they before this patch)
## Rationale
The way the test is currently written, duplicate inputs are allowed based on a random flag (`duplicate_input`). If the flag is unset, upon selecting an outpoint as input for a new transaction, the input is popped to prevent re-selection and later re-added to the collection (once all inputs have been picked). However, the re-addition to the collection is performed independently of whether the flag was set or not. This means that, if the flag is set, the selected inputs are duplicated which in turn makes these inputs more likely to be re-picked in the following iteration of the loop.
Additionally, both the input and output count of the transaction are bonded to the number of available outpoints. This makes sense for the former, but the latter shouldn't be.
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95897ff181 doc: removed help text saying that peers may not connect automatically (kevkevin)
Pull request description:
Introduced in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/23542 and released in version 23.0 there has been significant time since this change (2 years).
This should be removed as it is no longer relevant
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Without explicitly declaring the move, these UniValues get copied,
causing increased memory usage. Fix this by explicitly moving the
UniValue objects.
Used by `rest_block` and `getblock` RPC.
