Module bitcoin::bip158

BIP 158 Compact Block Filters for Light Clients.

This module implements a structure for compact filters on block data, for use in the BIP 157 light client protocol. The filter construction proposed is an alternative to Bloom filters, as used in BIP 37, that minimizes filter size by using Golomb-Rice coding for compression.

Relevant BIPS

• BIP 157 - Client Side Block Filtering
• BIP 158 - Compact Block Filters for Light Clients

Examples

fn get_script_for_coin(coin: &OutPoint) -> Result<ScriptBuf, BlockFilterError> {
  // get utxo ...
}

// create a block filter for a block (server side)
let filter = BlockFilter::new_script_filter(&block, get_script_for_coin)?;

// or create a filter from known raw data
let filter = BlockFilter::new(content);

// read and evaluate a filter

let query: Iterator<Item=ScriptBuf> = // .. some scripts you care about
if filter.match_any(&block_hash, &mut query.map(|s| s.as_bytes())) {
  // get this block
}

Structs

• BitStreamReader
  Bitwise stream reader.
• BitStreamWriter
  Bitwise stream writer.
• BlockFilter
  A block filter, as described by BIP 158.
• BlockFilterReader
  Reads and interprets a block filter.
• BlockFilterWriter
  Compiles and writes a block filter.
• GcsFilterReader
  Golomb-Rice encoded filter reader.
• GcsFilterWriter
  Golomb-Rice encoded filter writer.

Enums

• Error
  Errors for blockfilter.