- PROTIP: Man page creation must be done after updating the version number and recompiling and before Debian package creation
- Update checkpoints in src/chainparams.cpp via util/checkpoints.pl
- hushd must be running to run this script, since it uses hush-cli to get the data
- Run `./util/checkpoints.pl &> checkpoints.txt` to generate the latets checkpoint data
- By default it will generate checkpoints for every 1000 blocks, the "stride"
- You can get a different "stride" by passing it in as the first arg to the script
- To get checkpoint data for every 5000 blocks: `./util/checkpoints.pl 5000 &> checkpoints.txt`
- Currently checkpoints from before block 340k are given for every 5k blocks to keep the data smaller
- Look for line which says "HUSH mainnet checkpoint data" near line 560 in chainparams.cpp , that is where checkpoint data begins.
- checkpoints.pl will just generate the data you need, it must be manually copied into the correct place
- Checkpoints are a list of block heights and block hashes that tell a full node the correct block history of the blockchain
- Checkpoints make block verification a bit faster, because nodes can say "is this block a descendant of a checkpoint block?" instead of doing full consensus checks, which take more time
