8e6f953aa7 Expose valid (min, max) difficulty transition thresholds (Wilmer Paulino)
Pull request description:
Once `U256` was made private, we lost the ability to check whether a valid difficulty transition was made in the chain, since `Target` doesn't expose any operations. We only choose to expose `Shl<u32>` and `Shr<u32>` such that we can compute the min and max target thresholds allowed for a difficulty transition.
This is something we realized was missing after bumping to `rust-bitcoin v0.30.0` in `rust-lightning`, specifically for our `lightning-block-sync` crate. It may also be worth having a helper in `rust-bitcoin` that checks a header properly builds upon the previous, but that can be left for future work.
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