Allows merkle roots to be recalculated and validated on bootup

[batconjurer]

Describe your changes

Closes #3052.

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• [x] I have added a changelog
• [x] Git history is in acceptable state

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Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 81.60920% with 16 lines in your changes are missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 59.42%. Comparing base (97ec5b4) to head (9feb44b). Report is 4 commits behind head on main.

Files	Patch %	Lines
crates/merkle_tree/src/lib.rs	80.48%	16 Missing :warning:

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[batconjurer]

let's rm the cli arg and always validate

Sorry for not getting to this sooner. Fixing now.

[brentstone]

What's the status of this? Still relevant? @batconjurer

[batconjurer]

What's the status of this? Still relevant? @batconjurer

Very much. I though that this was already merged actually

[Fraccaman]

this will conflict with #2926

[brentstone]

this will conflict with #2926

In what way? Such that it is not compatible anymore or no?

[Fraccaman]

we have a new branch in the merkle root, so this PR needs to be updated

[batconjurer]

@brentstone This has been updated and should be ready to go.