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Silent Payments (BIP352) Testing Guide

This guide assumes you have a basic knowledge of the command line and are familiar with the bitcoin-cli RPC client.

Setup (optional)

While not required, this guide was written using a bendir directory for easier testing. If you want to follow the guide without using bendir, it's recommended you alias bitcoin-cli to bitcoin-cli -named -signet -datadir=<your testing datadir> so you can copy-paste the commands directly from the guide. To use bendir for your testing environment:

git clone https://github.com/josibake/bendir.git

Testing Guide: Bitcoin Core 22.0 Release Candidate

This document outlines some of the upcoming Bitcoin Core 22.0 release changes and provides steps to help. This is meant to get you started on testing, but is in no way comprehensive! After running through the steps in this guide, you are encouraged to do your own testing.

This can be as simple as testing the same features in this guide, but trying it a different way. Even better, think of features you use regularly and test that they still work as expected in the release candidate. You can also read the release notes to find something not covered in this guide. This is a great way to be involved with Bitcoin's development and helps keep Bitcoin running smoothly and bug free! Your help in this endeavor is greatly appreciated.

Overview

Changes covered in this testing guide include:

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I am josibake (https://keybase.io/josibake) on keybase.
I have a public key ASA1kbL1Cdmh5PzOIaJfqUEaJfI-3YyV8-ZGo1Wcb3902Ao

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	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	from sys import argv

	BYTES_TX=10 # version: 4 bytes, n_inputs: 1 byte, n_outputs: 1 byte, locktime: 4 bytes
	BYTES_WITNESS=2 # witness marker/flag: 2 bytes
	BYTES_PER_INPUT=41 # prevout: 36 bytes, scriptlen: 1 byte, sequence: 4 bytes
	BYTES_PER_OUTPUT=43 # amount: 8 bytes, scriptlen: 1 byte, script: 34 bytes
	BYTES_PER_WITNESS_STACK=66 # stacklen: 1 byte, itemlen: 1 byte, bip40 sig: 64 bytes
	VBYTES_SHARED=(BYTES_TX * 4 + BYTES_WITNESS) / 4 # fixed amount of vbytes, regardless of the number of participants
	SATS_PER_VBYTE=10

	[
	{
	"comment": "Simple send: two inputs",
	"sending": [
	{
	"given": {
	"outpoints": [
	[
	"f4184fc596403b9d638783cf57adfe4c75c605f6356fbc91338530e9831e9e16",
	0

	{
	"nodes": [{
	"name": "FC"
	},
	{
	"name": "SC"
	},
	{
	"name": "GW"
	},

	#!/bin/bash

	# set the env variables .. [email protected]:user/repo.git, etc
	# Files is a small regex of all the files you want to move
	# FILES='example.txt\|/*.png' , etc

	export OLDREPO
	export TARGETREPO
	export FILES