Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#27978: refactor: Drop unsafe AsBytePtr function

7c853619ee9ea17a79f1234b6c7871a45ceadcb9 refactor: Drop unsafe AsBytePtr function (Ryan Ofsky)

Pull request description:

  Replace calls to `AsBytePtr` with calls to `AsBytes` or `reinterpret_cast`. `AsBytePtr` is just a wrapper around `reinterpret_cast`. It accepts any type of pointer as an argument and uses `reinterpret_cast` to cast the argument to a `std::byte` pointer.

  Despite taking any type of pointer as an argument, it is not useful to call `AsBytePtr` on most types of pointers, because byte representations of most types will be platform specific or undefined. Also, because it is named similarly to the `AsBytes` function, `AsBytePtr` looks safer than it actually is. Both `AsBytes` and `AsBytePtr` call reinterpret_cast internally and may be unsafe to use with certain types, but AsBytes at least has some type checking and can only be called on `Span` objects, while `AsBytePtr` can be called on any pointer argument.

  The change was motivated by discussion on #27973 and #27927 and is compatible with those PRs

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