Hi everyone,

I'd like to give an update on my Consensus Cleanup work, now BIP54.

I opened an implementation against Bitcoin Inquisition v29.1 at [0]. It 
contains extensive testing
of each of the four proposed mitigations, and was used as a basis to generate 
test vectors for
BIP54. I opened a PR against the BIPs repository to add them to BIP54 [1].

The test vectors for the transaction-level sigops limit contain a wide variety 
of usage combinations
as well as ways of running into the limit. They also include some historical 
violations as well as
pathological transactions demonstrating the implementation details of the sigop 
accounting logic
(which was itself borrowed from that of BIP16, which all Bitcoin 
implementations presumably already
have).

The test vectors for the new witness-stripped transaction size restriction 
similarly exercise the
bounds of the check under various conditions (e.g. transactions with/without a 
witness). All
historical violations were also added to the test vectors, thanks to Chris 
Stewart for digging those
up.

Because the new timestamp restrictions are tailor-made to the mainnet 
difficulty adjustment
parameters, the test vectors for those contain a number of chains of mainnet 
headers (from genesis).
Each test case contains a full header chain and whether it is valid according 
to BIP54. These chains
were generated using a custom miner available in [2] and added to the 
implementation as a JSON data
file.

The test vectors for the coinbase restriction similarly include a chain of 
mainnet blocks, because
the timelock check is context-dependent. These were generated using a similar 
miner also available
at [2].

I'm seeking feedback on these test vectors from everybody but in particular 
developers of
alternative Bitcoin clients, as compatibility with other Bitcoin 
implementations than Bitcoin Core
was a design goal.

Best,
Antoine Poinsot

[0]: https://github.com/bitcoin-inquisition/bitcoin/pull/99
[1]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/2015
[2]: https://github.com/darosior/bitcoin/commits/bip54_miner

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