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authorPéter Szilágyi <peterke@gmail.com>2017-04-12 21:38:31 +0800
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-04-12 21:38:31 +0800
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consensus, core, ethstats: use engine specific block beneficiary (#14318)
* consensus, core, ethstats: use engine specific block beneficiary * core, eth, les, miner: use explicit beneficiary during mining
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diff --git a/consensus/consensus.go b/consensus/consensus.go
index c199e627f..8cbd32c88 100644
--- a/consensus/consensus.go
+++ b/consensus/consensus.go
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ type ChainReader interface {
// Engine is an algorithm agnostic consensus engine.
type Engine interface {
+ // Author retrieves the Ethereum address of the account that minted the given
+ // block, which may be different from the header's coinbase if a consensus
+ // engine is based on signatures.
+ Author(header *types.Header) (common.Address, error)
+
// VerifyHeader checks whether a header conforms to the consensus rules of a
// given engine. Verifying the seal may be done optionally here, or explicitly
// via the VerifySeal method.