This suggests specific tasks for new volunteers and links directly to
relevant pages or README sections.
We also advise submitters of new wallets to read the requirements list.
* Add flowchart illustration to blocks-first section to match new
headers-first flowchart
* Add new headers-first initial block download (IBD) section
* Revise Block Broadcasting section
* Add paragraph about orphan block handling in headers-first to the
Orphan Blocks section
* Ran `make manual-updates` to grab new summary
* Clarified that GHPS is part of 0.10.0 and is removed in master
* Autocrossref'd "Bitcoin Core master" to GitHub repo
* Removed GHPS from list of Mining RPCs now that it's in Removed RPCs
This commit provides a detailed overview of the current block download
method, which I've retroactively named blocks-first for parallelism with
headers-first.
New And Significantly Revised:
* New Initial Block Download (IBD) section (h3) with Blocks-First
subsection (h4)
* New Orphan Block subsection (under Blocks Broadcasting) describing
orphan blocks and how they're handled under blocks-first. Also
includes a simple illustration of the difference between orphan blocks
and stale blocks. Thanks to luke-jr for his s/orphan block/stale
block/ commit a couple months ago---that made this commit much easier.
Edits:
* Cleaned up a couple cases missed by previous s/orphan/stale/ commit
because they used past tense (orphaned).
* In P2P reference section, mentioned that a `block` message can be sent
unsolicited by miners.
* Mention that `getheaders` and `headers` were added in protocol
version 31800.
* Moved a few internal links around and added a few new internal links.
Administrivia:
* Started adding "TODOv0.10" in HTML comments to places that need to be
updated when 0.10 is released so that I can easily git grep for that
tag later.
This commit merges the RPC introduction section (h4), "JSON-RPC &
bitcoin-cli" into the currently-empty RPC section (h3). To do this, it
splits the contents of the file `_includes/ref_core_rpc_intro.md` into
the new files `_includes/ref/bitcoin-core/api-intro.md` and
`_includes/ref/bitcoin-core/rpcs/intro.md`
