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First step towards automating releases (T663). This eliminates manually copy-pasting the blockhash + chainwork. Prerequisite: You must have bitcoind running with `--rest=1` set either as a CLI arg or in the config. In the near future, we will have a dedicated node that can have these requests directed to (at that point, the hostaddr default will change from localhost to that dedicated node). Typical usage during a release is to replace mainnet params (`update-chainparams.py` with no args set). Occassionally, testnet params need to be updated as well, and may be done with `update-assumevalid.py -t`. Both of these uses assume default node settings regarding rpcport, rpcusername, rpcpassword, etc.

First step towards automating releases (T663). This eliminates manually copy-pasting the blockhash + chainwork. Prerequisite: You must have bitcoind running with `--rest=1` set either as a CLI arg or in the config. In the near future, we will have a dedicated node that can have these requests directed to (at that point, the hostaddr default will change from localhost to that dedicated node). Typical usage during a release is to replace mainnet params (`update-chainparams.py` with no args set). Occassionally, testnet params need to be updated as well, and may be done with `update-chainparams.py -t`. Both of these uses assume default node settings regarding rpcport, rpcusername, rpcpassword, etc.

First step towards automating releases (T663). This eliminates manually copy-pasting the blockhash + chainwork. Prerequisite: You must have bitcoind running with `--rest=1` set either as a CLI arg or in the config. In the near future, we will have a dedicated node that can have these requests directed to (at that point, the hostaddr default will change from localhost to that dedicated node). Typical usage during a release is to replace mainnet params (`update-chainparams.py` with no args set). Occassionally, testnet params need to be updated as well, and may be done with `update-assumevalidchainparams.py -t`. Both of these uses assume default node settings regarding rpcport, rpcusername, rpcpassword, etc.