lightclient

This is ready for review again, cc @karalabe @holiman. I rebased against master and made the following tweaks: * added a test in `blockchain_tests.go` * renamed package from `core/supplydelta` to...

I am okay with this change and have verified @wolovim is the same human being who co-authored this EIP!

This makes sense to me.

I agree that this seems like something that would be nice to standardize across EL clients. Maybe worth opening an issue to https://github.com/ethereum/execution-apis and discussing on ACD at some point?

I'm a little skeptical of the need for this. @maoueh could you elaborate on your intended use case? And if you're using EVM tracing to build an external DB of...

Thanks @maoueh, I think I understand now. This PR seems reasonable.

This is a really nice idea, I am happy to begin using it.

As I've said multiple times in this thread and on EIPIP, I don't think this is a good idea. I would rather leave it up to editor discretion.

I don't understand why you're dismissing the stale bot. I don't think this should be merged. Are we just going to have it sit here open forever?

A strong signal was sent, and it clearly won't be allowed to happen again. We've already made the author of 6000 renumber their EIP.