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Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 37)

Bitcoin protocol data type

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- Bitcoin varint Bitcoin protocol data type

Bitcoin varint

 0  0 

en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_documentation#Variable_length_integer

Implementations:

Python: github.com/alecalve/python-bitcoin-blockchain-parser/blob/c06f420995b345c9a193c8be6e0916eb70335863/blockchain_parser/utils.py#L41. Sample usage to extract 3 values from a bytes object:
```
file, off = decode_varint(value)
blk_off, off = decode_varint(value[off:])
tx_off, off = decode_varint(value[off:])
```

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