Chia-Network/chia-blockchain alpha-1.5

Alpha 1.5

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Alpha 1.5

1. You can now provide an index to create_plots using the -i flag to create an arbitrary new plot derived from an existing plot key. Thanks @xorinox.
2. There is a new restart_harvester.sh in scripts/ to easily restart a harvester when you want to add a newly completed plot to the farm without restarting farmer, fullnode, timelord, etc.
3. Harvesters now log errors if they encounter a malformed or corrupted plot file. Again thanks @xorinox.
4. New AJAX based full node UI. To access go to http://127.0.0.1:8555/index.html with any modern web browser on the same machine as the full node.
5. VDF verification code is improved and is now more paranoid.
6. Timelords can now be run as a cluster of VDF client instances around a central Timelord instance.. Instructions are available in the Cluster Timelord section of the repo wiki.
7. If you want to benchmark your CPU as a VDF you can use vdf_bench square_asm 500000 for the assembly optimized test or just vdf_bench square 500000 for the plain C++ code path. This tool is found in lib/chiavdf/fast_vdf/.
8. Improvements to shutting down services in all of the scripts in scripts/. Another @xorinox HT.
9. Thanks @dkackman for clean ups to the proof of space code.
10. Thanks to @davision for some typo fixes.