* delete BlockDetails from COL_EXTRA

* better proofs

* added tests

* PR suggestions

* adds error message for --no-ancient-blocks, closes #10261

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-Authored-By: seunlanlege <seunlanlege@gmail.com>

…-ethereum into stable-2.4.8-backports

This commit does the following:
- Prevent overflow in `verify_timestamp()` by not adding `now` to found faulty timestamp
- Use explicit `CheckedSystemTime::checked_add` to prevent potential consensus issues because SystemTime is platform
depedent
- remove `#[cfg(not(time_checked_add))]` conditional compilation

… in PING packet (#10705)

* get node IP address and udp port from Socket, if not included in PING packet

* prevent bootnodes from being added to host nodes

* code corrections

* code corrections

* code corrections

* code corrections

* docs

* code corrections

* code corrections

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-Authored-By: David <dvdplm@gmail.com>

This reverts commit f104784.

* Add a way to signal shutdown to snapshotting threads

* Pass Progress to fat_rlps() so we can abort from there too.

* Checking for abort in a single spot

* Remove nightly-only weak/strong counts

* fix warning

* Fix tests

* Add dummy impl to abort snapshots

* Add another dummy impl for TestSnapshotService

* Remove debugging code

* Return error instead of the odd Ok(())
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