bitcoin/bitcoin — pull request #3553 by laanwj (2014-01-17 15:36:56+00:00)
Title: qt: allow `walletpassphrase` in debug console without -server

Currently it is only possible to use `walletpassphrase` to unlock the wallet when bitcoin is started in server mode.

Almost everything that manipulates the wallet in the RPC console needs the wallet to be unlocked and is thus unusable without -server.

This is pretty unintuitive to me, and I'm sure it's even more confusing to users.

Solve this with a very minimal change: by making the GUI start a dummy RPC thread just to handle deadline timers.