Fix macOS serial binding fallback detection

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Summary

• distinguish real IOPlatformSerialNumber values from Hardware UUID fallback values on macOS
• add targeted ioreg fallback parsing for IOPlatformExpertDevice
• expose serial binding status so fingerprint checks fail closed when no true serial is available
• keep the miner module importable when optional requests dependency is unavailable

Issue

Addresses macOS serial binding fallback handling discussed in #7478.

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• PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX=/Users/qiann/Documents/Codex/2026-06-16/github/work/pycache python3 -m unittest miners.macos.test_rustchain_mac_miner_signing -v
• PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX=/Users/qiann/Documents/Codex/2026-06-16/github/work/pycache python3 -m py_compile miners/macos/rustchain_mac_miner_v2.5.py miners/macos/test_rustchain_mac_miner_signing.py

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[Scottcjn]

Thanks for the macOS serial-binding fallback fix. This conflicts with main — please rebase and we'll review for merge. — Elyan Labs

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This PR addresses the issue described in the title.

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Code Review — PR #7680

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• Changes are focused and address the stated issue directly
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• The modification touches miners/macos/rustchain_mac_miner_v2.5.py , miners/macos/test_rustchain_mac_miner_signing.py — verify that error paths are handled consistently
• If this interacts with consensus or payment logic, recommend adding a regression test simulating the failure scenario
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• Total changes across 2 files, 231 lines
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• Test coverage adequately exercises the change

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[FakerHideInBush]

The approach of separating serial from hardware UUID is correct — the old code silently fell through to Hardware UUID and used a truncated UUID as the serial, which broke serial binding. Two issues before merging:

1. _extract_system_profiler_value("Serial Number") silently misses the real Apple output format

On Intel Macs the system_profiler SPHardwareDataType serial line is:

    Serial Number (system):          C02TEST12345

After .strip() that becomes "Serial Number (system): C02TEST12345". The new helper computes prefix = "serial number:" and checks:

stripped.lower().startswith("serial number:")

"serial number (system): ..." does not start with "serial number:" — the (system) qualifier sits between the field name and the colon. The match silently returns None, serial stays None, and the code falls through to the ioreg fallbacks. The old code used 'Serial Number' in line (substring), which correctly found this line on all Apple hardware regardless of the qualifier text.

On Apple Silicon the field appears without a qualifier (Serial Number:) so those machines are unaffected, but Intel Macs — still a large share of the miner fleet — will always report serial_source: "missing" or only find the serial via ioreg.

None of the new tests exercise the system_profiler happy path with the (system) qualifier; they only test the UUID-only and ioreg-fallback cases.

Fix: use a substring match like the old code, or extend the prefix check to tolerate an optional (...) annotation before the colon:

# accepts "Serial Number:" and "Serial Number (system):"
if re.match(r"(?i)" + re.escape(field) + r"(\s*\([^)]*\))?\s*:", stripped):
    return _clean_hardware_identifier(stripped.split(":", 1)[1])

2. ioreg -l fallback dumps the entire IORegistry and may match non-platform serials

When the IOPlatformExpertDevice-targeted ioreg command fails, the code retries with:

['ioreg', '-l'],

ioreg -l without a class filter outputs the full registry — typically tens of thousands of lines covering every USB hub, Bluetooth adapter, NVMe drive, etc. The subprocess call alone can take several seconds on a loaded system. More importantly, _extract_ioreg_serial searches for the first line containing IOPlatformSerialNumber anywhere in the dump. Other ioreg entries (USB controllers, TB bridges) can contain properties with similar names, so there is a small but non-zero risk of matching a peripheral serial instead of the platform serial.

If ['ioreg', '-d2', '-c', 'IOPlatformExpertDevice'] fails on a machine (which should be very rare — it is the canonical way to read IOPlatformSerialNumber), the right fallback is to increase depth or omit -d2, not to switch to -l:

['ioreg', '-c', 'IOPlatformExpertDevice'],   # no depth limit

This keeps the output scoped to the platform device and avoids the full-registry dump.

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[Scottcjn]

Good catch on the macOS serial-binding fallback detection. It's conflicting with main — rebase and I'll take a look. Thanks!