From: Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr•org>
To: Mike Rosset <mrosset@bufio•org>,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Clarification on the use of getblocktemplate RPC method.
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 17:36:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202109091736.17891.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1dxbz4s.fsf@bufio.org>
https://github.com/bitcoin/libblkmaker/blob/master/blkmaker.c#L172
On Thursday 09 September 2021 12:54:18 Mike Rosset via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I recently went down the bitcoin protocol rabbit hole. I wanted to use
> GNU guile scheme to experiment with bitcoin. I initially started by
> creating a toy bitcoin miner but I've run into some inconsistencies with
> the documentation found on
> https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Getblocktemplate. Namely with creating the
> templates merkle root.
>
> From my understanding a coinbase transaction should have the
> transactions data concatenated before creating the merkle root. But
> getblocktemplate does not have a json cointbasetxn field. So I'm not
> sure how to create a coinbase transaction without that.
>
> I have a test template response data found here.
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mrosset/prospect/master/test-suite/data.j
>son and using a modified version of the merkle python reference script found
> on the wiki page. see
> https://github.com/mrosset/prospect/blob/master/scripts/merkle.py . I'm
> able to create a merkle root with the hash
> c5fff939f628a04428c080ed5bd7cd9bc0b4722b2522743049adb18213adf28a but
> that's minus the coinbase transaction.
>
> So far I'm able to replicate this hash using the test data in guile. But
> I'd like to sanitize this so that I'm using a coinbase transaction and
> making sure the python and guile merkle roots match.
>
> In short how do I get the coinbase transaction without the coinbasetxn
> field existing?
>
> Mike
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