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Add docs for --trusted-validator options (#8911)

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solana create-vote-account ~/vote-account-keypair.json ~/validator-keypair.json
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## Trusted validators
If you know and trust other validator nodes, you can specify this on the command line with the `--trusted-validator <PUBKEY>`
argument to `solana-validator`. You can specify multiple ones by repeating the argument `--trusted-validator <PUBKEY1> --trusted-validator <PUBKEY2>`.
This has two effects, one is when the validator is booting, it will only ask that set of trusted nodes for downloading genesis and
snapshots. Another is that in combination with the `--halt-on-trusted-validator-hash-mismatch` option, it will monitor the merkle
root hash of the entire accounts state of other trusted nodes on gossip and if the hashes produce any mismatch, the validator will
halt the node to prevent the validator from voting or processing potentially incorrect state values. At the moment, the slot that
the validator publishes the hash on is tied to the snapshot interval. For the feature to be effective, all validators in the trusted
set should be set to the same snapshot interval value or multiples of the same.
## Connect Your Validator
Connect to a testnet cluster by running: