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P2P and network changes
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#### Removal of reject network messages from Bitcoin Core (BIP61)
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The command line option to enable BIP61 (`-enablebip61`) has been removed.
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This feature has been disabled by default since Bitcoin Core version 0.18.0.
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Nodes on the network can not generally be trusted to send valid ("reject")
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messages, so this should only ever be used when connected to a trusted node.
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Please use the recommended alternatives if you rely on this deprecated feature:
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* Testing or debugging of implementations of the Bitcoin P2P network protocol
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should be done by inspecting the log messages that are produced by a recent
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version of Bitcoin Core. Bitcoin Core logs debug messages
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(`-debug=<category>`) to a stream (`-printtoconsole`) or to a file
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(`-debuglogfile=<debug.log>`).
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* Testing the validity of a block can be achieved by specific RPCs:
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- `submitblock`
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- `getblocktemplate` with `'mode'` set to `'proposal'` for blocks with
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potentially invalid POW
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* Testing the validity of a transaction can be achieved by specific RPCs:
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- `sendrawtransaction`
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- `testmempoolaccept`
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* Wallets should not use the absence of "reject" messages to indicate a
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transaction has propagated the network, nor should wallets use "reject"
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messages to set transaction fees. Wallets should rather use fee estimation
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to determine transaction fees and set replace-by-fee if desired. Thus, they
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could wait until the transaction has confirmed (taking into account the fee
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target they set (compare the RPC `estimatesmartfee`)) or listen for the
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transaction announcement by other network peers to check for propagation.
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