Additional API method and critical ElectRS bug #31
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urbit/urbitgetblocktxsmethod to fetch complete list of raw transactions by blockhash%volt, Urbit's Lightning implementation, needs to find and categorize a transaction spending one of its channels as cooperative, forced, or malicious, and in the last case match the raw transaction to a specific revocation signature. Compared to alternative solutions (modifying the existinggetblockinfostructure, fetching the entire raw block and parsing it on the Hoon side, or fetching verbose transaction JSON) this has no impact on existing usage, a small code footprint, and provides functionality that will also be useful for future Bitcoin use-cases other than Lightning.As of now, ships running
%btc-providerwith a mainnet full node will have stopped indexing new blocks at height 761248 unless they manually updated ElectRS and restarted the proxy server.