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Big fan of this. Rust is an amazing language if it did not have such a steep learning curve.

Bitcoin protocol should be based on rules, axioms and definitions - and not just the status quo of one github project.

This is awesome, hope it does not fade into irrelevancy!

As the guy behind python-bitcoinlib, I think you should use Rust. :D

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Wait, are you the person behind python-bitcoinlib?????

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Yup. Hence the github url: https://github.com/petertodd/python-bitcoinlib :)

I didn't write the first version of it. But I took over maintainership from jgarzik many years ago and got it into a more useful shape.

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Afaik there are no guides for installing it yet and there are some quirks with up/downgrading some crypto dependencies in Ubuntu (apt), other Linux distros and MacOS (brew). Are you aware of that?

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I mean, installing python-bitcoinlib is just the usual pip3 install python-bitcoinlib

I recently made a new release that I think fixes the main crypto dependency issue with missing ripemd160 support.

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Ditto.

Rust seems perfect for a project like Bitcoin. There's a good chance it would have been written in it were it to be created today.

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