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0.1.16-alpha.0 Apr 2, 2023
0.1.12-alpha.0 Mar 3, 2023

#60 in #note

MIT license

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bitcoin-system

This Rust crate is a direct translation from C++ to Rust of the Bitcoin Core codebase. It includes a set of utility functions and tools for managing and interacting with the Bitcoin network and blockchain.

Notice: This crate is part of a direct translation from C++ to Rust of the Bitcoin Core. As such, some of the function bodies may still be in the process of translation. Please note that this system will become testable once the translation process is complete.

While there may not be any specific mathematical equations or concepts involved in the bitcoin-system crate, some of the tokens listed are important components of the Bitcoin protocol and blockchain. For example, the Output token represents an output in a Bitcoin transaction that specifies an amount of Bitcoin being sent to a specific Bitcoin address. The decode_tx and encode_hex_tx tokens represent functions for decoding and encoding Bitcoin transactions, respectively. The script_to_asm_str and script_to_univ tokens represent functions for parsing and converting Bitcoin script code.

Overall, the bitcoin-system crate provides a set of foundational tools for working with the Bitcoin network and blockchain. These tools are used by other components of the Bitcoin system to implement various Bitcoin features, such as transaction creation and validation, blockchain synchronization, and peer-to-peer networking.

12> note that this crate is not in bitcoin-support because of a dependency on bitcoin-primitives and bitcoin-univalue, among others

Thank you for the clarification. It's important to note that the bitcoin-system crate is not part of the bitcoin-support crate due to its dependencies on other Rust crates such as bitcoin-primitives and bitcoin-univalue. These dependencies provide low-level functionality and data structures for working with the Bitcoin protocol and blockchain, which are required by the bitcoin-system crate to function properly.

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