* Add sanity check for slot processing (also impacted by https://github.com/status-im/nim-beacon-chain/issues/373)
* use reportDiff also for all state tests vs EF
* initial sanity checks for blocks - workaround zero signature in block headers: https://github.com/status-im/nim-beacon-chain/issues/374
* Remove generic object variant compare commented code
* Add the one block state transition sanity checks
* generalize blocks test to multiple blocks
* simplify slots test runner
* Add official epoch transitions, sanity blocks, sanity slots to the test suite
* Fix index out-of-bounds in initiate_validator_exit - enable proposer slashings unittest
* Update BLS fixtures to 0.8.3
* Bump fixtures with shuffling with minimal preset
* Update shuffling tests
* parseTest generic over file format (Json or SSZ)
* Initial crosslink parsing commit for debugging Nim crash
* Workaround https://github.com/status-im/nim-beacon-chain/issues/369
* Crosslink test works for minimal - https://github.com/status-im/nim-beacon-chain/issues/369 is back on mainnet
* Use ref objects to workaround https://github.com/status-im/nim-beacon-chain/issues/369
* Generalize state transition epoch test to all epoch tests
* Fix slashing (potential uint64 overflow in previous spec)
* Add a state debugging macro to deeply inspect the wrong fields
* make reportDiff visible
* Improve the debug state macro for containers
* add interop launcher scripts
* stick validator_keygen into beacon_node
* fix lmd ghost slot number on missing block
* use mocked eth1data when producing blocks
* use bls public key method for withdrawal credentials
* fix deposit domain
* prefer lowercase for a bunch of toHex
* build simulation binary in data folder to avoid data types confusion
* Update fixtures to 0.8.3
* v0.8.1 tests use new test path
* LFS caching: handle multiple versions of json_tests
* Enable paths > 260 characters in appveyor
* Appveyor: use git clone core.longpaths + the env variable at startup
* improve process_lfs.sh and cleanup submodules
* Introduce new mocking proc to replace:
- makeFakeValidatorPrivKey
- hackPrivKey
- getNextBeaconProposerIndex
- addBlock
- makeBlock
* Add comments on datastructure unsynced with the spec
* Add merkle tree constructor and initial mocking for deposits (missing merkle proofs)
* [Mock] Implement sparse merkle tree and merkle proof builder
* [Mocking] Genesis deposits
* Add compact_committees_roots init + mock genesis state
* [Tests] Add first deposit test using the new mocking procedures
* [Tests -deposits] add at and over 32 ETH deposit tests
* [Tests - deposits] Add test for validator top-up
* [Tests -deposits] Mention the TODO to test for invalid conditions
* [Tests] Add stub to test "is_valid_genesis_state"
* [Merkle proofs] Implement round-trip checks
* Deactivate roundtrips test
* SSZ - use EF convention for hash_tree_root / hashTreeRoot
* [Tests - Attestation] Attestation mocking + initial test
* Add mocking + 3 new tests for valid attestations + mention future invalid attestation tests
* Add crosslinks test (1 failing to attestations in block being duplicated in state transition)
* Single attestation crosslink test - workaround https://github.com/status-im/nim-beacon-chain/issues/361
* Add test for failed crosslink penalty
* Rebase fixes + add refactored tests to test suite
* justif-finalization helpers first batch
* Add 234 finalization tests
* Fix justif test, Rule I 234 finalization does not happen with sufficient support.
(Also unittest check template does not fail properly in some cases)
* Add tests for all finalization rules
* Properly delete nim-byteutils following c91727e7e5 (diff-7c3613dba5171cb6027c67835dd3b9d4)
* use digest helper for deposit root
* relax attestation validation when attestation is incoming but make it
more strict when adding to block
* share attestation validation logic between attestation pool and state
transition
* remove a bunch of redundant logging
* fix potential underflow in attestation delay checking
* fix committee used for attestation shard selection when attesting
* fix attestation data construction
* handle LFS fixtures for the test suite
* test_fixture_ssz_static.nim: allow the tests to fail properly
- switch to a debug build for the failing tests
* try -d:debug
* working justification, 1 node, 64 validators
* closer to tn1 params: 256 validators
* more debugging output; switch to minimum test case
* working justification and finalization in local network simulation
* fix currently incorrect state transition/attestation test assumption
* State sim compiles and run
* Works on libp2p testnet1
* Successfully update the state transition tests
* naive update of attestation pool (failing attstations can arrive in any order)
* Remove an official assert to allow attestation reordering
* rename get_genesis_beacon_state(...) to initialize_beacon_state_from_eth1(...); remove unused vestiges get_temporary_block_header(...) and get_empty_block(...); partly align initialize_beacon_state_from_eth1(...) with 0.8.0 version; implement CompactCommittee object type; update process_final_updates(...) to 0.8.0
* mark get_shard_delta(...) as 0.8.0
* mark get_total_active_balance(...) and epoch transition helper functions as 0.8.0
* move FORK_CHOICE_BALANCE_INCREMENT, not in spec anymore, to sole user in fork_choice
* replace BeaconState.finalized_{epoch,root} with BeaconState.finalized_checkpoint; rename get_delayed_activation_exit_epoch(...) to compute_activation_exit_epoch(...) and mark as 0.8.0; update get_churn_limit(...)/get_validator_churn_limit(...) to 0.8.0; update process_registry_updates(...) to 0.8.0
* update process_crosslinks(...) to 0.8.0; mark compute_start_slot_of_epoch(...) and get_committee_count(...) as 0.8.0
* mark Fork, is_slashable_validator(...), and get_beacon_proposer_index(...) as 0.8.0
* rename LATEST_SLASHED_EXIT_LENGTH to EPOCHS_PER_SLASHINGS_VECTOR; update process_slashings(...) to 0.8.0; remove pointless type conversion warning in get_previous_epoch(...)
* convert remaining references to finalized_epoch to finalized_checkpoint.epoch
* update slash_validator(...) to 0.8.0; mark inital value, Gwei, and time constants as 0.8.0; mark hash(...) and processBlockHeader(...) as 0.8.0
* rename WHISTLEBLOWING_REWARD_QUOTIENT to WHISTLEBLOWER_REWARD_QUOTIENT; rename LATEST_ACTIVE_INDEX_ROOTS_LENGTH to EPOCHS_PER_HISTORICAL_VECTOR (randao will also get merged into this); remove get_active_index_root(...); mark time parameter, signature domain types, and max operations per block constants as 0.8.0; update rewards and penalties constants to 0.8.0
* update is_valid_indexed_attestation(...) to 0.8.0; mark process_slot(...) as 0.8.0
* replace BeaconState.{current,previous}_justified_{epoch,root} with BeaconState.{current,previous}_justified_checkpoint
* rename slot_to_epoch(...) to compute_epoch_of_slot(...)
* rename aggregation_bitfield/custody_bitfield fields to aggregation_bits/custody_bits; rename convert_to_indexed(...) to get_indexed_attestation(...); mark BeaconBlockHeader as 0.8.0; update minimal preset MIN_ATTESTATION_INCLUSION_DELAY/time parameters in general to 0.8
* fix beacon node compilation; it used slightly different capitalizations of slot_to_epoch/slotToEpoch
* mark integer_squareroot(...), Deposit, VoluntaryExit, and Transfer as 0.8.0; rename get_epoch_start_slot(...) to compute_start_slot_of_epoch(...)
* add new Domain alias for uint64; rename bls_domain(...) to compute_domain(...), MAX_INDICES_PER_ATTESTATION to MAX_VALIDATORS_PER_COMMITTEE, and SignatureDomain to DomainType; update get_domain(...) to 0.8.0
* update/mark initiate_validator_exit(...) and Crosslink as 0.8.0; rename BeaconState.latest_block_roots -> BeaconState.block_roots; mark HistoricalBatch as 0.8.0
* migrate attestation pool tests from get_crosslink_committees_at_slot(...) to get_crosslink_committee(...)
* rm obsolete, unused get_crosslink_committees_at_slot_cached(...) and migrate tests/test_state_transition from get_crosslink_committees_at_slot(...) to get_crosslink_committee(...)
* migrate tests/testutil from get_crosslink_committees_at_slot(...) to get_crosslink_committee(...)
* use more pervasive caching infrastructure, initially of compute_committee; remove buggy (and per-index) shuffling to fix research/state_sim, which was noticing validators on multiple shard committees; rm now-unused specific get_attesting_balance_cached
* add some get_active_validator_index caching
* rm obsolete/unused get_attesting_indices_cached
* rm get_crosslink_committees_at_slot(...)
* some more 0.7 changes -- some of which can't be completed pending some data structure updates -- and shard handling changes to offset with epoch start shards
* update Deposit and BeaconBlockHeader to 0.7.0
* update get_total_balance(...) and get_base_reward(...) to 0.7.0
* rename initial value constant BLS_WITHDRAWAL_PREFIX_BYTE to BLS_WITHDRAWAL_PREFIX
* mark minimal presets as entirely migrated to 0.7.0; update process_rewards_and_penalties(...) to 0.7.0
* specify that targeting 0.7.0; adopt 0.7.0 refactoring of bls_domain/get_domain to update get_domain(...) to 0.7.0; mark that mainnet constant presets and block header processing are 0.7.0-consistent; update process_justification_and_finalization to 0.7.0 to fix potential underflow errors
* address mratsim's comment to copy whole spec comment
* 0.7.0 updates which don't change semantics; mostly comment changes
* mark get_attesting_indices, bls_verify, ProposerSlashing, BeaconBlockBody, deposit contract constants, state list length constants, compute_committee, get_crosslink_committee, is_slashable_attestation_data, processAttesterSlashings as 0.7.0; rename BASE_REWARD_QUOTIENT to BASE_REWARD_FACTOR
* complete marking unchanged-in-0.7.0 datatypes as such; a few more have trivial field renamings, etc
* update IndexedAttestation, verify_slashable_attestation/verify_indexed_attestation, and attester slashing processing to 0.6.3
* rm debug scaffolding
* rename Attestation.aggregate_signature -> Attestation.signature; convert various references to AttestationData.slot to get_attestation_slot; implement convert_to_indexed; update checkAttestation and processAttestations to 0.6.3; remove spurious assertion in beacon node related to invalid attestations
* replace 0.5 get_winning_root_and_participants with 0.6 get_winning_crosslink_and_attesting_indices; update process_crosslinks to 0.6.3
* mark both remaining 0.6.0 spec implementations as 0.6.3
* clear out all remaining spec version 0.6.1 refs
* GENESIS_SLOT and GENESIS_EPOCH are 0
* rm 0.5 get_attestation_participants in favor of 0.6 get_attesting_indices
* address mratsim's comment
* time can be equal to genesis
* fix invalid block assertions; those were essentially spurious
* allow toBeaconTime to handle time before genesis (in accordance with now(...) which states time can exist before GENESIS)
* update process_justification_and_finalization to 0.6.2; mark AttesterSlashing as 0.6.2
* replace get_effective_balance(...) with state.validator_registry[idx].effective_balance; rm get_effective_balance, process_ejections, should_update_validator_registry, update_validator_registry, and update_registry_and_shuffling_data; update get_total_balance to 0.6.2; implement process_registry_updates
* rm exit_validator; implement is_slashable_attestation_data; partly update processAttesterSlashings
* mark HistoricalBatch and Eth1Data as 0.6.2; implement get_shard_delta(...); replace 0.5 finish_epoch_update with 0.6 process_final_updates
* mark increase_balance, decrease_balance, get_delayed_activation_exit_epoch, bls_aggregate_pubkeys, bls_verify_multiple, Attestation, Transfer, slot_to_epoch, Crosslink, get_current_epoch, int_to_bytes*, various constants, processEth1Data, processTransfers, and verifyStateRoot as 0.6.2; rm is_double_vote and is_surround_vote
* mark get_bitfield_bit, verify_bitfield, ProposerSlashing, DepositData, VoluntaryExit, PendingAttestation, Fork, integer_squareroot, get_epoch_start_slot, is_active_validator, generate_seed, some constants to 0.6.2; rename MIN_PENALTY_QUOTIENT to MIN_SLASHING_PENALTY_QUOTIENT
* rm get_previous_total_balance, get_current_epoch_boundary_attestations, get_previous_epoch_boundary_attestations, and get_previous_epoch_matching_head_attestations
* update BeaconState to 0.6.2; simplify legacy get_crosslink_committees_at_slot infrastructure a bit by noting that registry_change is always false; reimplment 0.5 get_crosslink_committees_at_slot in terms of 0.6 get_crosslink_committee
* mark process_deposit(...), get_block_root_at_slot(...), get_block_root(...), Deposit, BeaconBlockHeader, BeaconBlockBody, hash(...), get_active_index_root(...), various constants, get_shard_delta(...), get_epoch_start_shard(...), get_crosslink_committee(...), processRandao(...), processVoluntaryExits(...), cacheState(...) as 0.6.2
* rm removed-since-0.5 split(...), is_power_of_2(...), get_shuffling(...); rm 0.5 versions of get_active_validator_indices and get_epoch_committee_count; add a few tests for integer_squareroot
* mark bytes_to_int(...) and advanceState(...) as 0.6.2
* rm 0.5 get_attesting_indices; update get_attesting_balance to 0.6.2
* another tiny commit to poke AppVeyor to maybe not timeout at connecting to GitHub partway through CI: mark get_churn_limit(...), initiate_validator_exit(...), and Validator as 0.6.2
* mark get_attestation_slot(...), AttestationDataAndCustodyBit, and BeaconBlock as 0.6.2
* implement get_churn_limit from 0.6.1; update initiate_validator_exit and get_previous_epoch to 0.6.1; remove obsoleted/non-spec reduce_balance, replaced by decrease_balance; mark BeaconBlock as 0.6.1
* rename get_block_root to get_block_root_at_slot and introduce epoch-oriented get_block_root; implement get_attestation_slot, get_matching_source_attestations, get_matching_target_attestations, get_matching_head_attestations, 0.6.1 get_attesting_indices, get_unslashed_attesting_indices, get_attestation_deltas, process_rewards_and_penalties; rm get_inactivity_penalty
* update Validator and processVoluntaryExits to 0.6.1; rm obsolete inclusion_slots/inclusion_distances
* rm removed activate_validator; mark DepositData, misc values, Gwei values, Randao processing, state caching as 0.6.1; update GENESIS_SLOT to 64, since it doesn't quite yet work at 0
* mark BeaconBlockHeader as 0.6.1; update BeaconBlockBody to 0.6.1; rename WHISTLEBLOWER_REWARD_QUOTIENT to WHISTLEBLOWING_REWARD_QUOTIENT; update slash_validator to 0.6.1
* implement 0.6.2 is_slashable_validator; update processProposerSlashings to 0.6.2; mark state caching as 0.6.2
* mark get_total_active_balance and process_slashings as 0.6.2; update get_base_reward to 0.6.2
* rm prepare_validator_for_withdrawal, process_exit_queue; mark mainnet misc constants as 0.6.2; update process block header to 0.6.2
* address mratsim's code review comment