Instead of using magic numbers we can define constants for the address
prefix bytes. This makes it easier for future readers of the code to see
what these values are if they don't know them and/or see that they are
correct if they do know them.
Based on the original work by Justin Moon.
*MSRV unchanged from 1.29.0.*
When `std` is off, `no-std` must be on, and we use the [`alloc`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/alloc/) and core2 crates. The `alloc` crate requires the user define a global allocator.
* Import from `core` and `alloc` instead of `std`
* `alloc` only used if `no-std` is on
* Create `std` feature
* Create `no-std` feature which adds a core2 dependency to polyfill `std::io` features. This is an experimental feature and should be
used with caution.
* CI runs tests `no-std`
* MSRV for `no-std` is 1.51 or so
Fixes#608. In #567 the Display impl for ChildNumber was
consciously changed, assuming the semver break would not
affect any correctly implemented downstream projects. We
were wrong.
It's very useful to Bitcoin applications, and especially "L2" ones, to
effectively compute feerates. Currently (and this is very unlikely to
change) bitcoind nodes compute the virtual size as a rounded-up division
of the size in witness units by 4, with a penalty for transactions that
are essentially >5% full of sigops.
Signed-off-by: Antoine Poinsot <darosior@protonmail.com>
This introduces some constants defined by Bitcoin Core which as a
consequence define some network rules in a new 'policy' module.
Only some were picked, which are very unlikely to change. Nonetheless a
Warning has been put in the module documentation.
Script-level constants are left into rust-miniscript where they are
already defined (src/miniscript/limits.rs).
It doesn't really make sense to have a constant for every common
script type's dust limit, instead we should just use the
`Script::dust_value()` function to have users calculate it.
The dust calculations added were only valid for P2WPKH and P2PKH
outputs, and somehow this fact was missed in review, despite the
upstream Core code being linked to and looked at by two reviewers
and the author (me).
Someday I will grow eyeballs, but that day is not today.