EIP-2935: Serve historical block hashes from state

[matkt]

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Description

For verkle we need to implement the EIP 2935 https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-2935.md

in order to save historical block hashes in the state. There is already an implementation in the verkle branch

[Gabriel-Trintinalia]

@matkt do you want help extracting it from the Verkle branch into Besu?

[matkt]

yes feel free to do it 👍

most important is here

• Write historical block history https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/blob/verkle/ethereum/core/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/ethereum/mainnet/HistoricalBlockHashProcessor.java
• Allow to add exception in order to write empty account in the trie https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/blob/verkle/ethereum/core/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/ethereum/mainnet/ClearEmptyAccountStrategy.java
• Define the clear empty account in the protocol schedule https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/blob/verkle/ethereum/core/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/ethereum/mainnet/MainnetProtocolSpecs.java#L143 https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/blob/verkle/ethereum/core/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/ethereum/mainnet/MainnetProtocolSpecs.java#L296
• Add clear empty account with exception for the new fork https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/blob/verkle/ethereum/core/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/ethereum/mainnet/MainnetProtocolSpecs.java#L743
• Add historical block hash processor for the new fork https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/blob/verkle/ethereum/core/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/ethereum/mainnet/MainnetProtocolSpecs.java#L769
• Call it during block processor https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/blob/verkle/ethereum/core/src/main/java/org/hyperledger/besu/ethereum/mainnet/AbstractBlockProcessor.java#L115

etc..