When receiving the history of an address, the client behaved unexpectedly
if either of two checks failed.
The client checked that the txids in the history are unique, and that the
history matches the previously announced status. If either failed, it
would just log a line and do nothing. Importantly, the synchronizer could
even consider itself is_up_to_date, i.e. the GUI could show the wallet is
synced.
This is now changed such that:
- if the txid uniqueness test fails, we simply disconnect
- if the history is not consistent with previously announced status,
we wait a bit, make sure is_up_to_date is False in the meantime,
and then potentially disconnect
See rationale for these in the comments.
related: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/7058#issuecomment-783613084
Note that for a required feature, BOLT-09 allows setting either:
- only the REQ bit
- both the REQ bit and the OPT bit
Hence, when checking if a feature is supported by e.g. an invoice, both
bits should be checked.
Note that in lnpeer.py, in self.features specifically, REQ implies OPT,
as it is set by ln_compare_features.
Exclude unconfirmed transactions from --to_height and include them into --from_height.
The reason being that an unconfirmed transaction will end up eventually into the last
block which most of the time will be higher than --from_height
- trampoline is enabled by default in config, to prevent download of `gossip_db`.
(if disabled, `gossip_db` will be downloaded, regardless of the existence of channels)
- if trampoline is enabled:
- the wallet can only open channels with trampoline nodes
- already-existing channels with non-trampoline nodes are frozen for sending.
- there are two types of trampoline payments: legacy and end-to-end (e2e).
- we decide to perform legacy or e2e based on the invoice:
- we use trampoline_routing_opt in features to detect Eclair and Phoenix invoices
- we use trampoline_routing_hints to detect Electrum invoices
- when trying a legacy payment, we add a second trampoline to the path to preserve privacy.
(we fall back to a single trampoline if the payment fails for all trampolines)
- the trampoline list is hardcoded, it will remain so until `trampoline_routing_opt` feature flag is in INIT.
- there are currently only two nodes in the hardcoded list, it would be nice to have more.
- similar to Phoenix, we find the fee/cltv by trial-and-error.
- if there is a second trampoline in the path, we use the same fee for both.
- the final spec should add fee info in error messages, so we will be able to fine-tune fees
