The usage of a ripe160 for bitcoin addresses in the API and in the
Indexer loses some info, specifically what kind of script it is.
Additionally not all types of scripts fit this mold. At best that means
its not future-proof.
This adds a method to the API in order to select from a Tx the hashed
outscript (thats singlehashed sha256) and refactor the address indexer
to use that instead of the ripe160 address.
The API enums broke a little, so I used the opportunity to break it a
lot and clean up the enums in order to make them more future-proof.
But, yeah, software from before this commit is protocol incompatible
with software after this commit.
Its not clear from my reading of the docs, but the std::sort version
that takes a struct actually makes a deep copy of the struct for each
sort. Which means that this usage is a really bad idea if you were
actually storing the data on this struct.
Instead of merging a small list into a bigger and bigger list,
write lots of small lists (20MB each or so) and then when we hit
the wanted final size, merge all of those into one.
TomZ