Rust REST client for Bitcoin Core REST API

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. It is unauthenticated so there's no need to worry about storing credentials.

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, querying the utxo set, and soft fork deployment statuses.

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 bitcoincore_rest::{ bitcoin::{Block, Network}, Error, RestApi, RestClient, };

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

```