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Make difficulty 128 bit #199

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@aivve aivve commented Aug 5, 2022

Based on Monero and Boolberry impl.

Not sure in near future we will need this but why not?

Requires testing, so far SYNCHRONIZED OK with full POW validation

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aivve commented Aug 6, 2022

It will look like this when the difficulty hits uint64_t numeric limit

"cumulative_difficulty": {
  "hi":1,
  "lo":9899
},
"difficulty":100000

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aivve commented Aug 6, 2022

Or in plain text cumulative_difficulty: 18446744073709561515 which is larger than 18446744073709551615

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aivve commented Aug 6, 2022

And yes, there's no migration tool, this requires syncing from scratch from nodes on prev. version.

…hat can't handle such a larger numbers in /getinfo RPC response
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