* Use vote signer service in fullnode
* Use native types for signature and pubkey, and address other review comments
* Start local vote signer if a remote service address is not provided
* Rebased to master
* Fixes after rebase
* Insert blobs into db_ledger in broadcast stage to support leader to validator transitions
* Add transmitting real slots to broadcast stage
* Handle real slots instead of default slots in window
* Switch to dummy repair on slots and modify erasure to support leader rotation
* Shorten length of holding locks
* Remove logger from replicator test
* Add db_window module for windowing functions from RocksDb
* Replace window with db_window functions in window_service
* Fix tests
* Make note of change in db_window
* Create RocksDb ledger in bin/fullnode
* Make db_ledger functions generic
* Add db_ledger to bin/replicator
* Cluster Replicated Data Store
Separate the data storage and merge strategy from the network IO boundary.
Implement an eager push overlay for transporting recent messages.
Simulation shows fast convergence with 20k nodes.
add linked-list capability to accounts
change accounts from a linked list to a VecDeque
add checkpoint and rollback for lastids
add subscriber notifications for rollbacks
checkpoint transaction count, too
* Add first leader to genesis entries, consume in genesis.sh
* Set bootstrap leader in the bank on startup, remove instantiation of bootstrap leader from bin/fullnode
* Remove need to initialize bootstrap leader in leader_scheduler, now can be read from genesis entries
* Add separate interface new_with_leader() in mint for creating genesis leader entries
* Added tests to thin client to test VoteContract calls, fix VoteContract sizing errors
* Calculate upper bound on VoteProgram size at runtime, add test for serializing/deserializing a max sized VoteProgram state
* Add Vote Contract
* Move ownership of LeaderScheduler from Fullnode to the bank
* Modified ReplicateStage to consume leader information from bank
* Restart RPC Services in Leader To Validator Transition
* Make VoteContract Context Free
* Remove voting from ClusterInfo and Tpu
* Remove dependency on ActiveValidators in LeaderScheduler
* Switch VoteContract to have two steps 1) Register 2) Vote. Change thin client to create + register a voting account on fullnode startup
* Remove check in leader_to_validator transition for unique references to bank, b/c jsonrpc service and rpcpubsub hold references through jsonhttpserver
* Move ledger write to its own stage
- Also, rename write_stage to leader_vote_stage, as write functionality
is moved to a different stage
* Address review comments
* Fix leader rotation test failure
* address review comments
* Add PoH height to process_ledger()
* Moved broadcast_stage Leader Scheduling logic to use Poh height instead of entry_height
* Moved LeaderScheduler logic to PoH in ReplicateStage
* Fix Leader scheduling tests to use PoH instead of entry height
* Change is_leader detection in repair() to use PoH instead of entry height
* Add tests to LeaderScheduler for new functionality
* fix Entry::new and genesis block PoH counts
* Moved LeaderScheduler to PoH ticks
* Cleanup to resolve PR comments
