(cherry picked from commit 04558c7d)

(cherry picked from commit 9329326a)

(cherry picked from commit 55d24e6e)

transaction time to block header.

(cherry picked from commit 38664ea5)

(cherry picked from commit 80a8d3a9)

When running a node sending hundreds of transactions a second, Ctrl-Cing it will typically crash. Destroy the chain_controller during chain_plugin::plugin_shutdown() to ensure better cleanup.

(cherry picked from commit e1b4d6c2)

(cherry picked from commit f5e316dc)

(cherry picked from commit 2a95530a)

(cherry picked from commit 912195ca)

(cherry picked from commit c3860250)

(cherry picked from commit 3274452a)

Commenting out travis tests that do not currently work because of…

Commenting out travis tests that do not currently work because of executables not currently being built.

fix for failure to start producing blocks #916

(reapplied on noon branch)

restore the call to `record_transaction` 

p2p stat 271 gh 916, 4

(reapplied on noon branch)

restore the call to `record_transaction` accidentally removed from `chain_controller::_apply_transaction` in 35f98e09

p2p stat 291 gh916 3

(reapplied on noon branch)

The header files for these were deleted long ago

P2p stat 271 gh916 2

(reapplied on noon branch)

Now on noon, can generally do the account creation on one go in a limited test network

STAT-306 #970 Replay causes assertion

(reapplied on noon branch)