Ava Chow 5bd990a3dd Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#34779: BIP 323: reserve version bits 5-28 as extra nonce space ...

107d4178d9 versionbits: update VersionBitsCache doc comment to match current behaviour (Antoine Poinsot)
94e3ac0b21 doc: release notes and bips doc update for #34779 (Antoine Poinsot)
1d5240574a qa: test we don't warn for ignored unknown version bits deployments (Antoine Poinsot)
f802edf57c versionbits: Limit live activation params and activation warnings per BIP323 (Anthony Towns)

Pull request description:

  This implements https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/2116, which repurposes 24 version bits as extra nonce space for miners rather than soft fork deployment coordination. 24 bits allows a miner to perform up to 72 PH before needing a fresh job from its controller. The current 16 bits in use by miners only allow up to 280 TH, which [apparently led some ASIC designers to start rolling the timestamp field](https://github.com/bitaxeorg/ESP-Miner/pull/1553#issuecomment-3937736319) on their beefier machines.

  Mailing list discussion available [here](https://gnusha.org/pi/bitcoindev/6fa0cb45-37d6-4b41-9ff8-03730fd96d6e@mattcorallo.com/). A previous shot at this is https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13972 (with a smaller extranonce space).

  This change only affects the warning logic.

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