Rust REST client for Bitcoin Core REST API

This is a Rust REST client library for calling the Bitcoin Core REST API. It makes it easy to talk to the Bitcoin Core REST interface.

The REST interface is useful for quickly iterating over the blockchain, because it can request blocks and transactions in binary form without having to serialize/deserialize into JSON and send the larger JSON payload over the wire.

It also has API for quickly retrieving large amounts of block headers and BIP157 compact block filter headers. There is also support for getting block chain info, mempool info, the raw mempool, and querying the utxo set.

Usage

The Bitcoin Core bitcoind instance must be started with -rest on the command line or rest=1 in the bitcoin.conf file.

```rust use bitcoin::Block; use bitcoin_rest::{BitcoinRest, Error};

async fn getblock(height: u64) -> Result { let rest = BitcoinRpc::networkdefault(Network::Bitcoin); rest.getblockat_height(height).await }

```