[validation] Create zerocoin coinspends cache #2707
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Essentially a zerocoin coinSpends cache layer to speedup the blockchain synchronization process during the period of time where blocks contained zerocoin transactions (which is the slowest period).
The reason behind this is that the sources are parsing and re-parsing the same zc transaction coinspend script over and over in different parts of the block validation circuit such as:
(1) block signature validation, (2) CheckZerocoinSpend, (3) ParseAndValidateZerocoinSpends, (4) CheckInBlockDoubleSpends, (5) IsUnspentOnFork, (6) ZPoS contextual checks, (7) NewZPivStake.
Pending to do: measure the blocks synchronization time improvement.