4e28753f60 feestimator: encapsulate estimation file logic (Antoine Poinsot)
e8ea6ad9c1 init: don't create a CBlockPolicyEstimator if we don't relay transactions (Antoine Poinsot)
86ff2cf202 Remove the remaining fee estimation globals (Antoine Poinsot)
03bfeee957 interface: remove unused estimateSmartFee method from node (Antoine Poinsot)
Pull request description:
If the `blocksonly` mode is turned on after running with transaction
relay enabled for a while, the fee estimation will serve outdated data
to both the internal wallet and to external applications that might be
feerate-sensitive and make use of `estimatesmartfee` (for example a
Lightning Network node).
This has already caused issues (for example https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/16840 (C-lightning), or https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/2562 (LND)) and it seems prudent to fail rather than to give inaccurate values.
This fixes#16840, and closes#16890 which tried to fix the symptoms (RPC) but not the cause as mentioned by sdaftuar :
> If this is a substantial problem, then I would think we should take action to protect our own wallet users as well (rather than hide the results of what our fee estimation would do!).
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This moves the CBlockPolicyEstimator to the NodeContext, which get rids
of two globals and allows us to conditionally create the
CBlockPolicyEstimator (and to remove a circular dep).
Signed-off-by: Antoine Poinsot <darosior@protonmail.com>
Changes API for AcceptToMemoryPool to no longer check maximum fee; we remove
this check from interfaces::CChain::testPeginClaimAcceptance. This is fine,
the check never should have been there (this method's job is to notice double
claim attempts and provide a more helpful message to the user; other mempool
failures should be caught later in the `claimrawpegin` logic when we call
`pwallet->commitTransaction` which actually subits to the mempool). It was
only checking fees because the API made it easier to do so than to not.
This commit adds signet support, which is a little bit silly/redundant for us :)
Was a surprisingly easy merge to handle, and hopefully in future Core is more
mindful of signed blocks when they are changing code architecture.
I had to change a couple lines of src/signet.cpp to add blank assets to the
CTxOuts and to find transaction input scriptWitnesses. No need to add any
other tx witness data (and the CAsset()s that I did add to make things compile
won't be used..) because signet will always have g_con_elementsmode off.
Added a method testPeginClaimAcceptance to interfaces::CChain. It is not clear
to me that this is meaningfully different from the existing method broadcastTransaction
(with the `relay` flag set to false so it doesn't actually broadcast), except
that this method returns the TxValidationState, which we display to the user
in the RPC error. Worth revisiting this.
Another nonobvious change was replacing a block of mempool-searching logic
in wallet/rpcwallet.cpp with the single line `pwallet->chain().findCoins(coins)`.
This I stole from the current state of upstream #17211, our favorite in-progress
PR from which the original logic came.
