implement web3

[nionis]

Right now we have been using web3-utils and web3-eth-abi which are packages shipped with web3.

To do:

• removed web3-utils and web3-eth-abi

versions are now locked together because we use web3 only

• update dockerfile
• switch to websocket provider
• update ingestion to use web3
• expose our web3 provider to reducers
• use web3 provided typings when possible (?)

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[nionis]

question marks means whether the idea is good or not

[shrugs]

Let's update the Web3Api ingest to use web3, yeah. It should be possible to use web3.provider.sendAsync to do the traceTransaction call.

I think it's also a good idea to switch to websocket providers (let's just switch entirely and not support HTTP providers at all, imo).

Does web3-1.0 have real typings now? If so, they should just work but we may need a @types/web3 devDependency.

I'm not sure what the api surface we want for reducers should look like; what were you thinking? It might be fine to just expose our web3 provider as a global so that reducers can bundle their own web3 (like how metamask and friends don't inject web3.js anymore, they just inject the node url.