Gabriel-Trintinalia

This is hard to replicate. From the logs, it appears that: When a block is saved for future import, requesting the lowest announced block parent is not always the best...

This is hard to replicate. From the logs, I can see at least one situation that could cause issues. It appears that: When a block is saved for future import,...

I created this draft PR to request the parent of a block instead of the lowest announced block: https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/4227

Blocked by https://github.com/ConsenSys/tessera/issues/1490

I believe that Tessera is creating the client from the config instead of the actual server: ``` public class RuntimeContextProvider { ... List servers = config.getServerConfigs(); ServerConfig p2pServerContext = servers.stream()...

Geth does not track totalDifficulty for non-canonical blocks. https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/25505#issuecomment-1215127020 Can someone confirm if Besu has the same behaviour?

Summary when plugins are specified: `besu --plugins=BadCLIOptionsPlugin,TestPicoCLIPlugin` 

@macfarla > so if I don't specify --plugins it will have the previous behavior? Yes, it no plugins are specified, besu will register all plugins found in the directory. >...

> @Gabriel-Trintinalia I see you have made more changes and the tests are passing now 💪 - can you explain about the execution strategy? How does it work and do...

@matkt do you want help extracting it from the Verkle branch into Besu?