Add a version field to block header - #58
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What is this for
This is a first step towards some kind of strategy for handling consensus-changing network upgrades.
It could look as follows:
This way upgraded nodes will still be accepting older blocks, but once a breaking version block hash is included in L1 all older nodes progression will effectively be halted with an appropriate error message.
I guess overall this is akin to hard-fork upgrade strategy where older network part is just commanded to upgrade to new rules by upgraded network part, because L1 agrees with an upgrade by including its block hashes. While this is inappropriate for L1 it may be a suitable strategy for a side-chain.
Why was this added
First practical example is #57 where one of the main goals is to introduce a fast full node sync based on header commitments to block txs, utreexo memforest, AMMs, auctions etc. while currently header only commits to block txs.
In future more UTXO types may be added as well as breaking validation rules may be introduced, which will be reflected in version number.