Support a different prefix about cashaddress HOT 4 OPEN

The new prefix will be announced very soon as part of the rebranding, btw.

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I imagine we would need to have some kind of API argument that would be BITCOIN_ABC=1 or BITCOIN_CASH_VERSION=(ABC|MAIN), etc?

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I was thinking of adding : ABC_MAINNET_PREFIX, ABC_TESTNET_PREFIX, Address.abc_cash_address, to_abc_cash_addr

And make Address.from_string, to_legacy_addr, to_cash_addr all support the 3 type of addresses as input (default to "bitcoincash:" if the prefix is missing).

Maybe also add an Address.from_cashaddr_arbitrary_prefix() method to support stuff like "regtest:", "simpleledger:"...

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I see that you already support importing CashAddr strings with any prefix. The only thing that is missing is a simple way to output to any other prefix.
What do you think about an optional prefix argument for the Address.cash_address() method?

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