GH-439 Merge pull request #9978 from EOSIO/blob_variant_impl_to_fc

move fc::blob to/from_variant out of libchain to fc

libraries/chain/include/eosio/chain/database_utils.hpp

@@ -186,17 +186,6 @@ namespace fc {
       b = eosio::chain::shared_blob(_s.begin(), _s.end(), b.get_allocator());
    }
 
-   inline
-   void to_variant( const blob& b, variant& v ) {
-      v = variant(base64_encode(b.data.data(), b.data.size()));
-   }
-
-   inline
-   void from_variant( const variant& v, blob& b ) {
-      string _s = base64_decode(v.as_string());
-      b.data = std::vector<char>(_s.begin(), _s.end());
-   }
-
    template<typename T>
    void to_variant( const eosio::chain::shared_vector<T>& sv, variant& v ) {
       to_variant(std::vector<T>(sv.begin(), sv.end()), v);