Codebase cleanup based on new assumption that `BlockChain<T>.Tip` is well defined

[greymistcube]

There are still unnecessary null coalescing happening in many places where BlockChain<T>.Tip could've been null (especially before BlockChain<T>.Create() was introduced). These should be cleaned up. 😗

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