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Accept unrequested blocks with work equal to our tip
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Authored by jasonbcox on Jan 5 2019, 02:45.

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Summary

This is a simple change that makes our accept requirements the
same as our request requirements, (ever so slightly) further
decoupling our consensus logic from our FindNextBlocksToDownload
logic in net_processing.

Partial backport of Core PR 11531 (932f118)
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11531/commits/932f118e6a3779bb3d6c3cc83963cf34ac150e42

This looks safe to me since it does not introduce any DoS vector beyond what currently exists.

Test Plan

test_runner.py --extended

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