Initial network handshake with bitcoin core node

With the JS/TS background, I consider this project being a huge milestone for the following reasons:

• first low level programming experience (working raw bytes)
• first experience interacting with a bitcoin core node from a code environment
• first experience with Rust programming language

A lot of knowledge gained.

Heavily inspired by learn me a bitcoin tutorial.

What's next?

Learning to compose a bitcoin transaction, signing it and broadcasting it to the network.