This adds asmap.py
and asmap-tool.py
from sipa’s nextgen
branch: https://github.com/sipa/asmap/tree/nextgen
The motivation is that we should maintain the tooling for de- and encoding asmap files within the bitcoin core repository because it is not possible to use an asmap file that is not encoded.
We already had an earlier version of asmap.py
within the seeds contrib tools. The newer version only had a small amount of changes and is still compatible, so the old version is removed from contrib/seeds and the new version is made available to makeseeds.py
.