Review improvements and fixes on newer GoQuorum versions and their compatibility with Network T nodes

[irzinfante]

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[irzinfante]

We should try to go to the latest GoQuorum version, 22.7.x (latest is 22.7.6). These are the interesting features introduced in different versions:

• QLight and IBFT/QBFT transition: 22.4.0
• Berlin EVM hard fork: 22.4.1
• Validators list from smart contract: 22.4.2
• Reduce empty blocks generation (QBFT): 22.7.0
• Set validators list with transition (QBFT): 22.7.2

[alejandroalffer]

In the next few hours I will set up a test network with current genesis and the proposed versions of GoQuorum, to check the peering versions, and how bootnodes can enable this communitaion with 22.4.x and 22.7.x versions

[irzinfante]

After testing the last Quorum version (v22.7.6) with test-environment these are some results:

• ✔️ blockperiodseconds transition worked properly adding this block inside "config" object in genesis.json:

"transitions": [
    {
        "block": <futureBlockNumber>,
        "blockperiodseconds": 3
    }
]

• ✖️ --miner.gaslimit option didn't work to limit the gas per block.
• ✖️ miner.gaslimit transition did not work to limit the gas per block adding this block inside "config" object in genesis.json:

"transitions": [
    {
        "block": <futureBlockNumber>,
        "miner.gaslimit": 30000000
    }
]