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Bastian Köcher b6294418f8 Introduce a Slot type (#7997)
* Introduce a `Slot` type

Instead of having some type definition that only was used in half of the
code or directly using `u64`, this adds a new unit type wrapper `Slot`.
This makes it especially easy for the outside api to know what type is
expected/returned.

* Change epoch duratioC

* rename all instances of slot number to slot

* Make the constructor private

Co-authored-by: André Silva <andrerfosilva@gmail.com>
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Aura (Authority-round) consensus in substrate.

Aura works by having a list of authorities A who are expected to roughly agree on the current time. Time is divided up into discrete slots of t seconds each. For each slot s, the author of that slot is A[s % |A|].

The author is allowed to issue one block but not more during that slot, and it will be built upon the longest valid chain that has been seen.

Blocks from future steps will be either deferred or rejected depending on how far in the future they are.

NOTE: Aura itself is designed to be generic over the crypto used.

License: GPL-3.0-or-later WITH Classpath-exception-2.0