Concept ACK

In the past I've worked around this by building a custom client (see e.g. #211 (comment)). Having the option to do this directly from rust-bitcoincore-rpc would be nice.

CI was all green when I read your post above but I re-ran all tests for you as well.

Yeah, I kicked it a few hours ahead of you :).

Thanks guys for kicking off the build, all checks passing.

This is a pretty straight forward change, anything else you think it needs to be ready to merge? This is required for a new feature @luisschwab is working on for BDK to allow a wallet to sync with a pruned bitcoind node.

I personally have completely given up on this repo, I don't know if or when @stevenroose will merge and/or release.

@tcharding if @stevenroose is up for it maybe can add write access for a BDK dev or two? This crate is one of our upstream dependencies so we'd like to help keep it up-to-date.

Steven doesn't check GitHub notifications very often, you'll have more luck if you reach him on Signal or some other method. I would suggest that you would have more success if you:

1. Just fork this repo if you really want to use it
2. Write your own client using types from https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoind-json-rpc/

(2) may require some effort but would likely be better in the long run IMO, that crate is in progress though, if you give me a list of the JSONRPC methods you guys use I can prioritise them. I'm actively hacking on it.