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p2p: implement decoding for Address

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Authored by yancy

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p2p: implement decoding for Address

Endian byte order for both IPv4 and the port number are interpreted as
big endian per the Addr section of:
https://developer.bitcoin.org/reference/p2p_networking.html

In the test cases, `deserialize` is swapped for
`encoding::decode_from_slice` since the addition of push bytes decoding
is planned to replace the existing `deserialize` implementation.
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What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new way to decode Bitcoin peer-to-peer network addresses in the rust-bitcoin library. It is a feature/refactoring change that introduces a new decoder implementation and swaps test cases to use it. There is no indication in the commit that it fixes a security bug, vulnerability, or crash.

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No security action required. Review as normal code-quality/refactoring change.

Security signals we found

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Why this scored 16/100

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Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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