ECIP-1041 Remove Difficulty Bomb

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[elaineo]

I would have preferred something closer to 6,100,000, but it's not a big deal and the ECIP looks good to me.

[whilei]

Just noting for general documentation/reference/reviewer-sanity that this ECIP aims for a current best-fit revision and summary for an existing and on-going thread around disabling the difficulty bomb. The main challenge is to settle on a fork block number that seems reasonably and certainly feasible to implement for the network (updating, nodes, miners ...), and for that number to be as soon as possible.

Relevant references (in chronological order):

• EIP-2 Homestead Hard-fork Changes - https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-2.md
• Initial ECIP-1010 disabler proposal: https://github.com/ethereumproject/ECIPs/blob/master/ECIPs/ECIP-1010.md
• Issue: Extension of ECIP-1010 timeline: ECIP-?: Extension of ecip 1010 timeline #63
• PR: Fallback for ECIP-1010 timeline extesion -- ECIP-1036: Fallback Complete Difficulty Bomb Diffusion #80