/**
 * Consensus witness-stack decoding, shared by every module that reads a
 * witness we did not build.
 *
 * Two independent decoders drifted apart before this existed: one accepted
 * non-minimal CompactSize encodings, the other rejected them. vaultd decodes
 * with rust-bitcoin, whose `VarInt::consensus_decode`
 * (0.32.8 `consensus/encode.rs:493-522`) returns `NonMinimalVarInt` for a 0xfd
 * carrying < 0xfd and a 0xfe carrying < 0x10000 — so the strict reading is the
 * only one that matches what the network will accept.
 *
 * @module tbv/core/utils/witness/witnessStack
 */
/**
 * Decode a consensus-encoded witness stack: item count, then (len, bytes)*.
 *
 * @param witness - The consensus-encoded witness bytes.
 * @param subject - Names the witness in error messages (e.g. "finalScriptWitness").
 * @returns The stack items, as views over `witness`.
 * @throws If the encoding is truncated, non-minimal, out of range, or leaves
 *         trailing bytes.
 */
export declare function decodeWitnessStack(witness: Uint8Array, subject: string): Uint8Array[];
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