Controlled test on archi-dev-box with operator approval. The daemon was
stopped first so the reconciler could not repair the state before the
re-exposure was confirmed — without a confirmed 200, the later 401 would
be consistent with the state never having been broken at all.
1. stale conf installed + container restarted -> POST /bitcoin-rpc/
returned 200 with a real block height and Allow-Origin: *
2. daemon started 20:00:36, nothing else touched
3. 20:02:19 reconcile rendered the conf and logged the expected warn
line naming bitcoin-ui/archy-bitcoin-ui, then restarted it
4. POST -> 401, Allow-Origin origin-scoped
5. conf byte-identical to the pre-test known-good, container healthy
Both halves are now proven on real hardware: a05956c4's template (the
gate works) and f6b5245b's delivery path (the gate reaches a container
the reconciler had been skipping).
Also records the operator's decision AGAINST credential rotation — no
macaroon, no Bitcoin RPC password — with the trade it accepts stated
plainly, so it is not silently re-litigated later.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
