A single hostile Electrum server, or a MITM on the one active
connection, could fabricate the block header the draw's entropy comes
from and so pick the winner of every round: headers were accepted with
no proof-of-work check and no link to the previous tip.
app/rounds/draw.py adds header_meets_its_own_target (rejects a header
whose hash doesn't satisfy the difficulty target it claims) and
header_prev_hash. electrum/listener.py's _apply_header now rejects a
header failing either check by raising HeaderValidationError, which
ends the session the same way a dropped connection would so the
listener rotates to the next configured server.
ElectrumListener gains corroborate_header: before the draw uses a
block, it's independently checked against the other configured servers
and needs a majority to agree. rounds/scheduler.py's
_wait_for_next_block now calls this and, on failure, logs why and
waits for a further block instead of ever using an uncorroborated
header.
Certificate/hostname verification stays disabled, so this doesn't
cover an attacker able to MITM every configured server at once -
BUGS.md notes that as not covered.
Suite grows from 151 to 165 tests. BUGS.md moves B-28 to Previously
fixed.
Same as before: once a bug is fixed, its long write-up collapses into
a short paragraph pointing at the fix commits instead of repeating
what the code and commit messages already say. File goes from 442 to
343 lines.
bump_fee (tx/broadcast.py) used to overwrite PendingTransaction.
broadcast_at on every fee bump, but reconcile.py's abandon-after-N-
hours grace period is measured from that same column. A transaction
successfully bumped every rbf_timeout_seconds (900s by default) but
never mined reset that clock before it could ever reach the 6-hour
abandon window, so it was never abandoned: its UTXOs never returned to
the user, and if it was a bet the round stayed in "closing"
indefinitely.
PendingTransaction gains a last_broadcast_at column (migration
861e76aaf34c, backfilled from broadcast_at for existing rows before
the NOT NULL constraint is applied). broadcast_at is now never
rewritten after creation, so reconcile.py's _is_due keeps measuring
from the first broadcast unchanged. bump_fee updates last_broadcast_at
instead, and should_bump now reads last_broadcast_at rather than
broadcast_at — correct, since whether another bump is due should reset
after every bump, unlike the reconciler's abandon check, which must
not.
BUGS.md moves B-27 to "Previously fixed" with the fix description; the
suite grows from 148 to 151 tests, including a direct proof that a tx
bumped a minute ago but first broadcast 7 hours ago still gets
abandoned.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
_trigger_payout used to run exactly once, from _close_and_draw. Any
failure after that point — no Electrum client, insufficient pool
UTXOs, a missing fee_address, a rejected broadcast — wedged the round
in paying_out forever, and every one of those early returns except the
generic exception handler logged nothing at all: /admin showed a
stalled round with no explanation. A process restart while paying_out
hit the same dead end.
_tick now handles status == "paying_out": it calls the new
_retry_payout_if_due, which re-invokes _trigger_payout unless the most
recent payout_failed audit entry for the round is younger than
_PAYOUT_RETRY_INTERVAL_SECONDS (60s) — throttled so a persistently
broken payout (e.g. no fee_address set yet) doesn't retry, and re-log
a failure, on every 5-second tick. Every early return in
_trigger_payout now calls _log_payout_failure with a reason string, so
that throttle always has something to check against and /admin always
shows why a round is stuck.
This is safe to fire on a restart too, because B-25 already made
_trigger_payout idempotent (it no-ops if a non-terminal payout
PendingTransaction already exists) and persists before broadcasting —
so a round found paying_out at startup, whatever state its payout was
actually in, gets retried the same way. That closes the paying_out
half of the "scheduler doesn't resume mid-flight rounds after a
restart" gap in CLAUDE.md; the drawing/block-wait half is untouched
(see BUGS.md B-36).
BUGS.md moves B-26 to "Previously fixed" with the fix description; the
suite grows from 143 to 148 tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
_trigger_payout used to broadcast the payout transaction and only
afterwards write payout_txid and its PendingTransaction. A crash in
that window (docker-compose.yml auto-restarts on crash) left a payout
on-chain with zero record: the round stuck in paying_out, nothing for
the reconciler to resolve, and a manual retry that would have paid the
winner a second time. This mirrors B-08, which already fixed the same
gap for place_bet/request_withdrawal.
_trigger_payout now has four phases: read, build (network read only,
no write), persist the intent as a PendingTransaction(kind="payout",
status="building") and commit, then broadcast and promote to
"pending". A rejected broadcast now leaves that "building" row for
tx/reconcile.py to resolve — its existing building/pending handling
already covers a payout kind correctly, including clearing
payout_txid on abandonment, so reconcile.py needed no changes.
Since pool UTXOs aren't tracked in utxo_events and so can never be
reserved/released the way a user's own UTXOs are, two guards go along
with the two-phase write: _trigger_payout now refuses to build a
second payout for a round that already has a non-terminal
PendingTransaction, and the payout builder excludes any UTXO already
referenced by any non-terminal payout transaction
(_reserved_payout_outpoints) so a stale payout from an earlier round
the reconciler hasn't abandoned yet can't be double-spent by a fresh
attempt.
This makes a payout retry safe; making one happen automatically is
B-26, still open. BUGS.md moves B-25 to "Previously fixed" with the
fix description; the suite grows from 139 to 143 tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A second full-codebase pass over app/, both static frontends and the
Docker/Caddy deployment found 25 issues (4 critical, 6 high, 7 medium,
8 low), none of which the 139-test suite catches. All are open.
Each entry carries file:line references, why it is a problem, and a
Proposed fix paragraph with the concrete approach rather than a bare
"fix this". The 24 findings of the 2026-07-26 audit move to a
"Previously fixed" section, unchanged.
The four critical ones:
B-25 the payout broadcasts before recording anything, so a crash in
that window leaves an on-chain payout with no DB trace and a
manual retry would double-pay the winner
B-26 any transient failure at payout time (no Electrum client,
insufficient pool UTXOs) returns silently and wedges the round
in paying_out forever, with nothing in the audit log
B-27 every RBF bump rewrites broadcast_at, which is the same field
the reconciler's 6-hour abandon deadline is measured from, so
a repeatedly-bumped tx is never abandoned
B-28 headers are accepted with no PoW or prev-hash validation over a
TLS connection with certificate verification disabled, and that
header is the draw's only source of entropy
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
BUGS.md keeps every finding's original description and gains, per entry, what was
actually done and where its regression test lives — including the two entries
fixed differently from the plan (B-15 validates at startup, B-09 kept both
callers plus a bounded retry) and the one only partially fixed by decision (B-16,
where shipping the guide was deferred).
It also gains a Runtime verification section, which is the part worth reading:
what the live Docker deployment actually demonstrated (startup validation on the
real .env, the listener connecting and holding, rounds cycling, the migration
applied, and the reconciler's missing-tx heuristic checked against the real
server's error message) separated from what has no runtime evidence at all —
nothing has spent money since the restart, so the two-phase write, the RBF
retargeting, the reconciler's actual behaviour and the dust path are unit-tested
only. A green suite is not a working deployment, and the file now says so.
CLAUDE.md documents the two things a reader would otherwise have to reverse-
engineer: the transaction lifecycle (why rows are written before broadcasting,
what each PendingTransaction status means, why spent_txid must track the current
txid, and that one-active-round is now a DB invariant) and the Electrum
connection's rotation/keepalive/timeout behaviour. Its Known gaps list is rewritten
to say what is still open now that transaction-level state self-heals but
round-level state does not.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first pass left 11 of the 24 entries with their remedy buried in prose and
only 7 with a named test, while the header claimed a regression test for each.
Every entry now follows one shape: symptom, root cause, *Proposed fix:*,
*Test:* — with the handful that genuinely cannot be unit-tested (Docker image
layout, browser behaviour) marked manual instead of left implied.
A few fixes gained detail while being written out: B-14 needs the empty-token
short-circuit kept ahead of compare_digest, B-15 breaks the current tests'
short JWT secret, B-19 must not update tip_header_hex from a losing header,
and B-20's column ends up holding the previous txid rather than the next one,
so its name is backwards.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds BUGS.md: a severity-ordered backlog from the 2026-07-26 audit of every
Python module, both static frontends and the Docker/Caddy deployment. Each
entry carries symptom, root cause with file references, reproduction and a
proposed fix, plus the regression test it needs — none of these are covered
by the current suite.
The five critical ones share a root cause worth stating up front: the code
treats a broadcast as final and the Electrum connection as never failing, so
there is no reconciliation between the DB's view and the chain's. That leaves
several states the system only leaves via manual DB edits.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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