Check inflation by inspecting raw block data

[Sjors]

Relying on gettxoutsetinfo might miss inflation if whatever causes the inflation bug also breaks that RPC call.

We can parse the raw block data using a library such as bitcoin-ruby and calculate the coin supply change.

[jonathanbier]

Is this similar to the independent inflation idea?

[Sjors]

#82 checks inflation by querying alternative full node implementations.

The approach here is a bit more straight forward, just parsing the block data, which doesn't require a full node.

[Sjors]

I'm not sure if this has any added value to just comparing to what other implementations say. All implementations process blocks and check that there's no inflation. They would then consider a block invalid and we already have an alert for that. So I'm tempted to close this.