* Add StagingArea struct
* Implemented staging areas in blockStore
* Move blockStagingShard to separate folder
* Apply staging shard to acceptanceDataStore
* Update blockHeaderStore with StagingArea
* Add StagingArea to BlockRelationStore
* Add StagingArea to blockStatusStore
* Add StagingArea to consensusStateStore
* Add StagingArea to daaBlocksStore
* Add StagingArea to finalityStore
* Add StagingArea to ghostdagDataStore
* Add StagingArea to headersSelectedChainStore and headersSelectedTipStore
* Add StagingArea to multisetStore
* Add StagingArea to pruningStore
* Add StagingArea to reachabilityDataStore
* Add StagingArea to utxoDiffStore
* Fix forgotten compilation error
* Update reachability manager and some more things with StagingArea
* Add StagingArea to dagTopologyManager, and some more
* Add StagingArea to GHOSTDAGManager, and some more
* Add StagingArea to difficultyManager, and some more
* Add StagingArea to dagTraversalManager, and some more
* Add StagingArea to headerTipsManager, and some more
* Add StagingArea to constnsusStateManager, pastMedianTimeManager
* Add StagingArea to transactionValidator
* Add StagingArea to finalityManager
* Add StagingArea to mergeDepthManager
* Add StagingArea to pruningManager
* Add StagingArea to rest of ValidateAndInsertBlock
* Add StagingArea to blockValidator
* Add StagingArea to coinbaseManager
* Add StagingArea to syncManager
* Add StagingArea to blockBuilder
* Update consensus with StagingArea
* Add StagingArea to ghostdag2
* Fix remaining compilation errors
* Update names of stagingShards
* Fix forgotten stagingArea passing
* Mark stagingShard.isCommited = true once commited
* Move isStaged to stagingShard, so that it's available without going through store
* Make blockHeaderStore count be avilable from stagingShard
* Fix remaining forgotten stagingArea passing
* commitAllChanges should call dbTx.Commit in the end
* Fix all tests tests in blockValidator
* Fix all tests in consensusStateManager and some more
* Fix all tests in pruningManager
* Add many missing stagingAreas in tests
* Fix many tests
* Fix most of all other tests
* Fix ghostdag_test.go
* Add comment to StagingArea
* Make list of StagingShards an array
* Add comment to StagingShardID
* Make sure all staging shards are pointer-receiver
* Undo bucket rename in block_store
* Typo: isCommited -> isCommitted
* Add comment explaining why stagingArea.shards is an array
* Log the hashrate of each block
* Add a test for GetHashrateString
* Move difficulty related functions to its own package
* Convert the validated log in validateAndInsertBlock to a log function
* Add tests for max/min int
* Convert BlockGHOSTDAGData from an interface to a public struct with getters
* Move hashes.Less to externalapi so it can access the hashes directly without copying
* Reduce calls to ghostdagstore.Get in blueWindow
* Simplify the logic in RequiredDifficulty and reuse big.Int
* Remove bigintpool as its no longer used
* Use ChooseSelectedParent in RequiredDifficulty instead of looping over the parents
* Remove comment
* Replace blueScore with blueWork in ghostDAG SelectedParent selection
* Add blueWork to protopuf ghostdag data
* Auto generate protobuf go code
* Serialize/Deserialize blueWork when converting to protobuf
* pass block header store to ghostdagmanager
* Convert tal's ghostdag2 implementation to blueWork
* Change finality test to check the blueWork instead of blueScore
* Update ghostdag_test to pass blockHeaderStore to ghostdag, and test all networks genesis headers
* Add sanity blueWork check to ghostdag_test
* [NOD-1528] Make data stores copy data on stage
* [NOD-1528] Add proto objects to serialize consensus state objects
* [NOD-1528] Fix receiver names
* [NOD-1528] Add copy to block store and utxo diff staging
* [NOD-1528] Return errors where needed
* [NOD-1461] Change the external api interface to not having anything besides DomainTransactions and DomainBlocks.
* [NOD-1462] Move external api types to a separate package.
* [NOD-1462] Clarify which model we're using in miningmanager.
* [NOD-1462] Extract coinbase data to its own struct.
* [NOD-1462] Add a comment above CoinbaseData.
* [NOD-1462] Fix the comment above CoinbaseData.
* [NOD-1458] Rename RestoreUTXOSet to RestorePastUTXOSet.
* [NOD-1458] Make CalculateAcceptanceDataAndMultiset take BlockGHOSTDAGData and nothing else.
* [NOD-1458] Make ConsensusStateStore's Update take ConsensusStateChanges instead of just UTXODiff.
* [NOD-1458] Add Tips() to ConsensusStateStore.
* [NOD-1458] Make all implementation structs private.
* [NOD-1458] Remove BlockAtDepth and add highHash to ChainBlockAtBlueScore.
* [NOD-1458] Rename CalculateAcceptanceDataAndMultiset to CalculateAcceptanceDataAndUTXOMultiset.
* [NOD-1458] Add a dependency to GHOSTDAGManager from ConsensusStateManager.
* [NOD-1458] Add ChooseSelectedParent to GHOSTDAGManager.
* [NOD-1458] Add DifficultyManager.
* [NOD-1458] Add PastMedianTimeManager.
* [NOD-1458] Add Hash() to Multiset.
* [NOD-1458] Add a dependency to ghostdagManager from blockProcessor.
* [NOD-1458] Add errors to all interfaces that need them.
* [NOD-1458] Uppercasify types in comments.
* [NOD-1458] Fix a bad comment.
* [NOD-1458] Fix a comment.
* [NOD-1458] Rename ChainBlockAtBlueScore to HighestChainBlockBelowBlueScore.
* [NOD-1458] Replace BlockAndTransactionValidator with an anonymous interface.