wip: introduce py-hdwallet

[wolovim]

What does it do?

Introduces py-hdwallet for child key derivation.

(WIP: seeking feedback on items below)

Background

• My understanding of the plan is for py-hdwallet to eventually provide all BIP32-related functionality within eth-account. This introduction of the library only goes as far as replicating existing functionality recently introduced by @fubuloubu.
• Mnemonics are currently outside of the scope of py-hdwallet, so @fubuloubu's recent mnemonic work would go untouched.

TODO:

• put all testing in its right place, e.g., remove or alter relevant tests in eth-account; some tests are better suited for py-hdwallet.
• agree on hardening representation (e.g., ', h, H, etc.)
  • py-hdwallet only supports h
  • the eth-account implementation had support for ' and H

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[fubuloubu]

The ' is the standard representation IIRC. It should be supported prior to either of the other ones. Understanding it's not exactly the most legible in code, but a simple replace would solve that.

[fubuloubu]

Also, a nice thing that should be introduced at some point is an alternative account type that can continuously derive new accounts using hdwallet, and encrypts/decrypts the master key instead of the account key. This would come in handy primarily for testing use (deriving multiple test accounts from a seed), but would set the stage for hardware wallet integration (which uses hd paths to obtain the account from master public key).

[pipermerriam]

BTW, we'd typically want to at least put py-hdwallet into beta before releasing this.

[fselmo]

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