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    "Make the libbitcoinkernel logging callback explicitly global to match internal reality",
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    "Strong support for simplifying the API and eliminating false multi-logger handles (sedited, w0xlt)",
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      "P3 because it aligns the external kernel API with internal reality without adding functionality",
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  "summary": "Replaces the per-connection `btck_LoggingConnection` interface in libbitcoinkernel with a single global callback setter `btck_logging_set_callback`. Internally, a leaked `KernelLogger` singleton manages callback state, and the C++ wrapper maintains scoped lifetime via a single-instance RAII `Logger`.",
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    "ryanofsky cautioned against prematurely limiting the logging API in a way that might be hard to reverse; author noted the kernel C API is explicitly unversioned and an orthogonal step before larger contextual logging refactors.",
    "purpleKarrot suggested dropping user_data, but author defended it as standard C callback practice.",
    "sedited and w0xlt noted that a global callback could leak between unit tests; author addressed this by keeping an RAII `Logger` wrapper in the C++ interface that unsets the callback on destruction."
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