Here we add a beacon chain light client for use by geth.
Geth can now be configured to run against a beacon chain API endpoint,
without pointing a CL to it. To set this up, use the `--beacon.api` flag. Information
provided by the beacon chain is verified, i.e. geth does not blindly trust the beacon
API endpoint in this mode. The root of trust are the beacon chain 'sync committees'.
The configured beacon API endpoint must provide light client data. At this time, only
Lodestar and Nimbus provide the necessary APIs.
There is also a standalone tool, cmd/blsync, which uses the beacon chain light client
to drive any EL implementation via its engine API.
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Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
* miner: untangle miner
* miner: use common.hash instead of *types.header
* cmd/geth: deprecate --mine
* eth: get rid of most miner api
* console: get rid of coinbase in welcome message
* miner/stress: get rid of the miner stress test
* eth: get rid of miner.setEtherbase
* ethstats: remove miner and hashrate flags
* ethstats: remove miner and hashrate flags
* cmd: rename pendingBlockProducer to miner.pending.feeRecipient flag
* miner: use pendingFeeRecipient instead of etherbase
* miner: add mutex to protect the pending block
* miner: add mutex to protect the pending block
* eth: get rid of etherbase mentions
* miner: no need to lock the coinbase
* eth, miner: fix linter
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Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
Co-authored-by: Péter Szilágyi <peterke@gmail.com>
* eth: drop support for forward sync triggers and head block packets
* consensus, eth: enforce always merged network
* eth: fix tx looper startup and shutdown
* cmd, core: fix some tests
* core: remove notion of future blocks
* core, eth: drop unused methods and types
The prestateTracer was reporting an inaccurate nonce for the contract being created in
post EIP-158 transactions. Correct nonce is 0, due to the issue nonce was being reported as 1.
* eth: make transaction propagation paths in the network deterministic
* eth: avoid potential division by 0
* eth: make tx propagation dependent on local node id too
* eth: fix review comments
eth_call and debug_traceCall allow users to override various block fields, among them base fee. However the overriden base fee was not considered for computing the effective gas price of that message, and instead base fee of the base block was used. This has been fixed in this commit.
* core/txpool, miner: speed up blob pool pending retrievals
* miner: fix test merge issue
* eth: same same
* core/txpool/blobpool: speed up blobtx creation in benchmark a bit
* core/txpool/blobpool: fix linter
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Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
