Currently we use the `Uint256` type to represent two proof of work
integers, namely target and difficulty (work).
It would be nice to not have a public integer type that is not fully
implemented (i.e., does not implement arithmetic etc as do integer types
in stdlib). Instead of implementing all the stdlib functions we can
instead add two new wrapper types, since these are not general purpose
integers they do not need to implement anything we do not need to use.
- Add a `pow` module.
- Put a modified version of `Uint256` to `pow`.
- Add two new wrapper types `Target` and `Difficulty`.
- Only implement methods that we use on each type.
Note this patch does not remove the original `Uint256`, that will be
done as a separate patch.
I think this might take a while to resolve and we should move ahead with
1.58. Looks like the fresh release of 1.59 added LLVM 13.0 that broke
some things.
Disable problematic jobs that involve Github Actions caching or `cross`
whenever the environment is set to ACT. This allows running the CI
pipeline locally and hopefully speeds up PR cycle times by reducing
unexpected CI pipeline results.
Tobin C. Harding
Andrew Poelstra
sanket1729
Andrew Ahlers
Riccardo Casatta
Martin Habovstiak