* cmd, core, eth: init tx lookup in background

* core/rawdb: tiny log fixes to make it clearer what's happening

* core, eth: fix rebase errors

* core/rawdb: make reindexing less generic, but more optimal

* rlp: implement rlp list iterator

* core/rawdb: new implementation of tx indexing/unindex using generic tx iterator and hashing rlp-data

* core/rawdb, cmd/utils: fix review concerns

* cmd/utils: fix merge issue

* core/rawdb: add some log formatting polishes

Co-authored-by: rjl493456442 <garyrong0905@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Péter Szilágyi <peterke@gmail.com>

* all: implement simple checkpoint syncing

cmd, les, node: remove callback mechanism

cmd, node: remove callback definition

les: simplify the registrar

les: expose checkpoint rpc services in the light client

les, light: don't store untrusted receipt

cmd, contracts, les: discard stale checkpoint

cmd, contracts/registrar: loose restriction of registeration

cmd, contracts: add replay-protection

all: off-chain multi-signature contract

params: deploy checkpoint contract for rinkeby

cmd/registrar: add raw signing mode for registrar

cmd/registrar, contracts/registrar, les: fixed messages

* cmd/registrar, contracts/registrar: fix lints

* accounts/abi/bind, les: address comments

* cmd, contracts, les, light, params: minor checkpoint sync cleanups

* cmd, eth, les, light: move checkpoint config to config file

* cmd, eth, les, params: address comments

* eth, les, params: address comments

* cmd: polish up the checkpoint admin CLI

* cmd, contracts, params: deploy new version contract

* cmd/checkpoint-admin: add another flag for clef mode signing

* cmd, contracts, les: rename and regen checkpoint oracle with abigen

* all: get rid of error when create mdb

* core: clean up variables definition

* all: inline mdb definition

This commit reduces database I/O by not writing every state trie to disk.

* accounts, consensus, core, eth: make chain maker consensus agnostic

* consensus, core: move CalcDifficulty to Engine interface

* consensus: add docs for calcDifficulty function

* consensus, core: minor comment fixups

This commit adds pluggable consensus engines to go-ethereum. In short, it
introduces a generic consensus interface, and refactors the entire codebase to
use this interface.

This commit solves several issues concerning the genesis block:

* Genesis/ChainConfig loading was handled by cmd/geth code. This left
  library users in the cold. They could specify a JSON-encoded
  string and overwrite the config, but didn't get any of the additional
  checks performed by geth.
* Decoding and writing of genesis JSON was conflated in
  WriteGenesisBlock. This made it a lot harder to embed the genesis
  block into the forthcoming config file loader. This commit changes
  things so there is a single Genesis type that represents genesis
  blocks. All uses of Write*Genesis* are changed to use the new type
  instead.
* If the chain config supplied by the user was incompatible with the
  current chain (i.e. the chain had already advanced beyond a scheduled
  fork), it got overwritten. This is not an issue in practice because
  previous forks have always had the highest total difficulty. It might
  matter in the future though. The new code reverts the local chain to
  the point of the fork when upgrading configuration.

The change to genesis block data removes compression library
dependencies from package core.

There is no need to depend on the old context package now that the
minimum Go version is 1.7. The move to "context" eliminates our weird
vendoring setup. Some vendored code still uses golang.org/x/net/context
and it is now vendored in the normal way.

This change triggered new vet checks around context.WithTimeout which
didn't fire with golang.org/x/net/context.

Reworked the EVM gas instructions to use 64bit integers rather than
arbitrary size big ints. All gas operations, be it additions,
multiplications or divisions, are checked and guarded against 64 bit
integer overflows.

In additon, most of the protocol paramaters in the params package have
been converted to uint64 and are now constants rather than variables.

* common/math: added overflow check ops
* core: vmenv, env renamed to evm
* eth, internal/ethapi, les: unmetered eth_call and cancel methods
* core/vm: implemented big.Int pool for evm instructions
* core/vm: unexported intPool methods & verification methods
* core/vm: added memoryGasCost overflow check and test

This reverts commit 8b57c494.

Reworked the EVM gas instructions to use 64bit integers rather than
arbitrary size big ints. All gas operations, be it additions,
multiplications or divisions, are checked and guarded against 64 bit
integer overflows.

In additon, most of the protocol paramaters in the params package have
been converted to uint64 and are now constants rather than variables.

* common/math: added overflow check ops
* core: vmenv, env renamed to evm
* eth, internal/ethapi, les: unmetered eth_call and cancel methods
* core/vm: implemented big.Int pool for evm instructions
* core/vm: unexported intPool methods & verification methods
* core/vm: added memoryGasCost overflow check and test

This commit implements EIP158 part 1, 2, 3 & 4

1. If an account is empty it's no longer written to the trie. An empty
  account is defined as (balance=0, nonce=0, storage=0, code=0).
2. Delete an empty account if it's touched
3. An empty account is redefined as either non-existent or empty.
4. Zero value calls and zero value suicides no longer consume the 25k
  reation costs.

params: moved core/config to params

Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Wilcke <jeffrey@ethereum.org>