This updates the coinbase transactions to reward service nodes
periodically rather than every block. If you recieve a service node
reward this reward will be delayed x blocks, if you receive another
reward to the same wallet before those blocks have been completed it
will be added to your total and all will be paid out after those x
blocks has passed.
For example if our batching interval is 2 blocks:
Block 1 - Address A receives reward of 10 oxen - added to batch
Block 2 - Address A receives reward of 10 oxen - added to batch
Block 3 - Address A is paid out 20 oxen.
Batching accumulates a small reward for all nodes every block
The batching of service node rewards allows us to drip feed rewards
to service nodes. Rather than accruing each service node 16.5 oxen every
time they are pulse block leader we now reward every node the 16.5 /
num_service_nodes every block and pay each wallet the full amount that
has been accrued after a period of time (Likely 3.5 days).
To spread each payment evenly we now pay the rewards based on the
address of the recipient. This modulus of their address determines which
block the address should be paid and by setting the interval to our
service_node_batching interval we can guarantee they will be paid out
regularly and evenly distribute the payments for all wallets over this
There's no reason we need intermediate blocks, so make it just generate
v7@0 (for genesis), v14s to make funds, and the the target. (Or just
v7@0 + target for <v14 hard fork versions).
When targetting macos <10.14 macos won't allow use of anything from
C++17 that throws, such as:
- std::get on a variant
- std::visit
- std::optional::value()
- std::any_cast
This avoids all of these.
For std::get, we either replace with std::get_if (where appropriate), or
else use a `var::get` implementation of std::get added to lokimq (also
updated here). (This `var` namespace is just an `std` alias everywhere
*except* old target macos).
For std::visit, likewise lokimq adds an var::visit implementation for
old macos that we use.
std::optional::value() uses weren't useful anyway as everywhere it calls
them we've already checked that the option has a value, in which case we
can use `*opt` (which doesn't check for contents and throw).
std::any just has to be avoided as far as I can tell, but the one place
we used it is only ever a block, so I just replaced it with a `const
block*`.
REGISTER_CALLBACK and REGISTER_CALLBACK_METHOD do *exactly the same
thing*, and both take a different and unnecessary argument. DRY it out
and make it use a lambda instead of boost::bind.
A huge amount of this is repetitive:
- `boost::get<T>(variant)` becomes `std::get<T>(variant)`
- `boost::get<T>(variant_ptr)` becomes `std::get_if<T>(variant_ptr)`
- `variant.type() == typeid(T)` becomes `std::holds_alternative<T>(variant)`
There are also some simplifications to visitors using simpler stl
visitors, or (simpler still) generic lambdas as visitors.
Also adds boost serialization serializers for std::variant and
std::optional.
When RingCT is enabled, outputs from coinbase transactions
are created as a single output, and stored as RingCT output,
with a fake mask. Their amount is not hidden on the blockchain
itself, but they are then able to be used as fake inputs in
a RingCT ring. Since the output amounts are hidden, their
"dustiness" is not an obstacle anymore to mixing, and this
makes the coinbase transactions a lot smaller, as well as
helping the TXO set to grow more slowly.
Also add a new "Null" type of rct signature, which decreases
the size required when no signatures are to be stored, as
in a coinbase tx.
