We were using `tal_fmt` to truncate off the last byte of the
response (newline), which required an allocation, a call to `vsnprintf` and a
copy of the block contents. This being >2MB in size on mainnet was rather
expensive.
We now just signal the end of the string by overwriting the trailing newline,
and stealing directly onto the result.
We've had problems with blocksonly in the past and bitcoind still allows
to use outdated (thus potentially dangerous estimates) while running
bitcoin with -blocksonly.
ZmnSCPxj mentionned that we still don't document this, but i figured
that in this specific case an explicit check and error seems preferable.
Changelog-Added: We now explicitly check at startup that our default Bitcoin backend (bitcoind) does relay transactions.
Proposed-by: ZmnSCPxj <zmnscpxj@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antoine Poinsot <darosior@protonmail.com>
This allows us to kill two birds with one stone: once connected, we use
the output of the successful call to do some sanity checks (only
checking the version for now, but more are yet to come!).
Changelog-Added: We now explicitly check at startup the version of our default Bitcoin backend (bitcoind).
Co-Authored-by: ZmnSCPxj <zmnscpxj@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antoine Poinsot <darosior@protonmail.com>
Changelog-Fixed: plugin: `bcli` no longer logs a harmless warning about being unable to connect to the JSON-RPC interface.
Changelog-Added: plugin: Plugins can opt out of having an RPC connection automatically initialized on startup.
We did not take the value of --commit-fee into account : this removes
the unused option from lightningd and instead registers it in bcli,
where we set the actual feerate of commitment transactions. This also
corrects the documentation.
Changelog-Fixed: config: we now take the --commit-fee parameter into account.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Poinsot <darosior@protonmail.com>
They are already logged both in bcli, and in lightningd.
This just adds a lot of noise to the logs. We keep successed attempts
though for the tests.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Poinsot <darosior@protonmail.com>
A CONSERVATIVE/3 target for them.
Some noisy changes to the tests as we had to update the estimatesmartfee
mock.
Changelog-Changed: We now use a higher feerate for resolving onchain HTLCs and for penalty transactions
This is also taken and adapted from lightningd/bitcoind.
The call to 'getblockchaininfo' is replaced by 'echo' as we don't
make use of the result and the former can sometimes be slow (e.g. on
IBD).
Most is taken from lightningd/bitcoind and adapted. This currently
exposes 5 commands:
- `getchaininfo`, currently called at startup to check the network and
whether we are on IBD.
- `getrawblockbyheight`, which basically does the `getblockhash` +
`getblock` trick.
- `getfeerate`
- `sendrawtransaction`
- `getutxout`, used to gather infos about an output and currently used by
`getfilteredblock` in `lightningd/bitcoind`.
Christian Decker
Rusty Russell
Antoine Poinsot
lisa neigut