Deprecation in favour of asic-rs

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Hey all,

As some of you may have noticed, the maintenance on this project has been lackluster for a while, but for good reason. Between myself and most of the original team who worked on this project, we have moved our effort to working on asic-rs.

asic-rs is much more stable than pyasic, as we have taken many of the lessons learned from this project and incorporated them there. Better scanning letting users target only specific firmwares, versioned backends to prevent some of the redundant checks needed to keep things from breaking, an updated and better formatted data model, and many many more improvements. It is also written in Rust, a favorite for many bitcoiners, which makes it faster, better at error handling, allows for multi language bindings, and suprisingly makes it easier to maintain, thanks to traits.

The good news is that asic-rs is very close to being a superset of pyasic, same license, very similar user API, and nearly all the features that are in use by users of pyasic today. I would highly suggest for new projects to look at using it instead of pyasic, since it will be growing much faster, and much more actively maintained, including new maintainers starting directly on asic-rs. For existing projects, I would suggest attempting to migrate, it should be very close for the most part, although there will still be some sticking points, hence why I am leaving this project up. If you are starting a new project or updating an existing one and run into any issues, please let the team know, and we will work on a fix for it.

Repo link: https://github.com/256foundation/asic-rs
Telegram channel: https://t.me/the256foundation/4632
Python bindings (pyasic-rs): https://pypi.org/project/pyasic-rs

-- Brett