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Informational 12 Bitcoin

units: Add hex parsing for Amount and SignedAmount

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Mitchell Bagot

73/100 · Adequate
units: Add hex parsing for Amount and SignedAmount

The Amount and SignedAmount types are numeric wrapper types that should
include functionality for parsing from hex. Since the types can error
during construction for non-hex reasons, the existing ParseAmountError
needs to be extended

Add additional variants to ParseAmountErrorInner to handle hex parsing.
Introduce from_hex and from_hex_unprefixed to Amount and SignedAmount.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds new public functions that let users create Bitcoin amount values from hexadecimal strings. It is a feature addition, not a fix for a known bug or vulnerability. There is no evidence in the commit or supplied references that this change addresses a security issue.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as a normal feature addition. If consuming these new APIs, validate that callers handle ParseAmountError correctly and do not assume hex-parsed amounts are always valid.

Security signals we found

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No security-relevant signals present in the diff

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Feature addition: new hex parsing constructors

03

Existing range and parse errors reused

Risk score

Why this scored 12/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 0/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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