Rust for Bitcoiners
  • About this repo
  • Why Current Rust resources are not enough?
  • Rust for Bitcoiners: Project-Oriented Course Outline
  • bitcoin_in_rust
    • Understanding bitcoin blockchain structure and storage capabilities
    • ch1
      • design
    • ch2
      • What is mining?
      • segwit
    • ch0
      • core_lib
        • hashing
  • bitdevs
    • playgrounds
  • Preface
    • archives
      • Introduction to the Clap crate
      • one_way_functions_examples
    • module_1
      • Immutable by default
      • How to represent numbers in Rust?
      • Introduction to Pointers
      • Arrays and Slices in rust
      • Function
      • Loops in Rust
      • Can you see why Rust is best fit for Bitcoin related applications?
    • module_2
      • Data Types
      • Enums
      • Method call syntax
      • Summary
    • module_3
      • What is Box?
      • 2_syntax_sugar_and_traits
      • Linked List in Rust
    • module_4
      • Developing Software for bitcoin
      • User Interaction in Rust through command line
      • Option and Result
      • Interacting with Bitcoin node using RPC
    • module_5
      • Traits
      • Parsing json data with serde
      • Overview of bitcoin crate
    • module_6
      • What is Rc?
      • When Unique mutable borrow rule is too restrictive
      • Deref Coercion
      • memory_model
        • 0_marker_traits
    • module_7
      • Multi-tasking Computers
      • How to cordinate multiple threads
      • Counting the total number of bitcoin transactions
  • rust-for-bitcoiners-2
    • office_hour_1
    • Course plan
    • assignments
      • Implement your own hashing algorithm
        • rust_hashing_code_detailed
      • a-5
      • Assignment 6
      • Bitcoin Protocol Development - Week 8: Connecting to P2P network
        • Tips on writing with rust
  • Course Outline
    • assignments
      • Bitcoin scripting Arithmetic using Rust
  • tutorials
    • Observing the fee trends using Rust
    • Privacy concerns of a Transaction and it's implication in Coinselection
    • Building_UTXO_Set
    • JSON_serialization_with_serde
    • de_se_rialization
      • Hex encoding
      • rust-bitcoin-crate
        • Private Key using bitcoin crate
  • c_and_rust
    • day1
      • day1
    • day2
      • Lifetimes in Rust
    • day3
      • Owning references vs Borrowing References
  • rust-for-bitcoiners-1
    • day1
      • Day1 plan
    • day2
      • Day2 plan
      • Summary of 2nd Lecture
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  1. Preface
  2. module_1

Can you see why Rust is best fit for Bitcoin related applications?

  1. Rust makes invalid data hard to represent, it either detects overflows(numerical and buffer) at compile time or panics and throws an error if it is encountered in runtime. This prevents invalid data being stored in blockchain (remember blockchain is immutable).

  2. It gives control over memory resources to you the programmer, and helps you write efficient code. This might be crucial because once bitcoin is adopted widely businesses might need their own servers to process customer transactions. With Rust the cost of running a server is cheaper.

  3. Rust have Generics and Traits which are found in high level programming languages like Haskell, Scala etc., This allows you to write expressive reusable code without sacrifising type safety.

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