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accomplish is connecting to a service like Bitcoin Core,
and use that for tasks like generating addresses,
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tools like <code>bitcoin-cli</code>, or the Bitcoin Core HTTP RPC
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random hexadecimal string in a HTTP response could be
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found in Bitcoin-S. We've also written a bunch of tests,
that verify that all of this actually works.
You'll know for sure that you're sending
a valid public key to <code>importmulti</code>, and you when doing
RPC calls like <code>getblockheader</code> we'll even parse the
hexadecimal string into a complete header that you can
interact with without goofing around with bits and bytes.</p>
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