[BTC-dev] (EXPERIMENTAL) Full Orphanage Thermonuke.

[Stanislav Datskovskiy]

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The patch below shoots the entire 'orphan' (bastard) block storage
mechanism in the head. To force sync, we simply recurse every time
such a block is encountered, asking for a parcel of blocks preceding
it, down to the current best-known.

Bastard blocks themselves are discarded.

At the time of writing, the machine running this test - patched from

(0.5.3.1-RELEASE SHA256,
 5c41fe6cf286770a25bf61ab0c35747d0c760f8656754296d2e1d3c4274b5686)

has crossed blockheight 100,000 and continues to sync.
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