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bitcoin: add "extreme object size" deserialization unit test

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Andrew Poelstra

91/100 · Strong
bitcoin: add "extreme object size" deserialization unit test

As promised in https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/pull/4762

I am not convinced that our decoding of large transactions and blocks is
properly tested to make sure that we don't accidentally start rejecting
very large objects. Add a unit test specifically for this.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit only adds a new unit test to the rust-bitcoin library. It does not change any production code. The test checks that the library can still serialize and deserialize very large Bitcoin transactions, witnesses, and script signatures. There is no bug fix or security patch here.

Recommended action

No action required. This is a test-only change. Reviewers may optionally confirm the test passes and that the large allocations are acceptable in CI.

Security signals we found

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Why this scored 12/100

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Affected reach 0/15
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