Merge #101: Add mention to README re status of the crate

3e0eefc Add mention to README re status of the crate (Tobin C. Harding)

Pull request description:

  This crate is in maintenance mode sine `libbitcoinconsensus` has been deprecated and removed from Core.

  Add a section to the docs so folk are aware of it.

  Close: #100

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Author: apoelstra

README.md

@@ -17,6 +17,15 @@ A typical Bitcoin enabled application will however want to access further secp25
 The project [rust-secp256k1](https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-secp256k1) offers a cargo build and Rust bindings, therefore we depend on that instead of compiling the Bitcoin embedded sources into `libbitcoinconsensus`.
 This introduces a risk, since a difference between the two secp256k1 sources could break consensus with Bitcoin.
 
+## Status
+
+The `libbitcoinconsensus` library was [deprecated in Bitcoin Core v27](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-27.0.md#libbitcoinconsensus).
+
+> In the future, libbitcoinkernel will provide a much more useful API that is aware of the UTXO set, and therefore be able to fully validate transactions and blocks.
+
+And was [removed in Bitcoin Core v28](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-28.0.md#libbitcoinconsensus-removal).
+
+As such this library will not likely see many updates i.e., **this crate is in maintenance mode**.
 
 ## Version numbers