Describes a place in the block chain to another node such that if the other node doesn't have the same branch, it can find a recent common trunk. The further back it is, the further before the fork it may be.
Synopsis
Declared in <primitives/block.h>
struct CBlockLocator;Member Functions
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Returns true when the locator holds no block hashes. |
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Clears the locator, leaving it empty. |
Data Members
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Block hashes, from newest to oldest, with exponentially increasing gaps. |
Static Data Members
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Historically CBlockLocator's version field has been written to network streams as the negotiated protocol version and to disk streams as the client version, but the value has never been used. |
Non-Member Functions
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Get a locator for a block index entry. |
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