Ava Chow a7c30da1f6 Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#34873: net: fix premature stale flagging of unpicked private broadcast txs
325afe664d net: delay stale evaluation and expose time_added in private broadcast (Mccalabrese)
999d18ab1c net: introduce TxSendStatus internal state container (Mccalabrese)

Pull request description:

  **Motivation**
  Currently, freshly added transactions in `private_broadcast` are almost immediately flagged and logged as stale by the `resend-stale` job.

  **The Bug**
  `m_transactions` maps a transaction to a `std::vector<SendStatus>`. When `try_emplace` adds a new transaction, this vector is empty. When `GetStale()` runs, `DerivePriority()` evaluates the empty vector and returns a default `Priority` struct where `last_confirmed` evaluates to the Unix Epoch (Jan 1, 1970). The stale checker sees a 50-year-old timestamp and flags it on the next resend-stale cycle.

  **The Fix**
  Rather than modifying the transient `Priority` struct or creating a "Zombie Transaction" edge case by ignoring transactions with 0 picks, this PR modifies the state container:
  * Wraps the `SendStatus` vector in a new `TxSendStatus` struct inside `private_broadcast.h`.
  * `TxSendStatus` automatically captures `time_added` upon emplace.
  * `GetStale()` now checks `p.num_confirmed == 0` to measure age against `time_added` using a new 5-minute `INITIAL_STALE_DURATION` grace period, falling back to `last_confirmed` and the standard 1-minute `STALE_DURATION` once network interaction begins.

  **Additional Polish**
  * Exposed `time_added` via the `getprivatebroadcastinfo`  RPC endpoint so users can see when a transaction entered the queue.
  * Added a dedicated `stale_unpicked_tx` test case and updated `private_broadcast_tests.cpp` to properly mock the passage of time for the new grace period.
  Closes #34862

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