Bugs fixed:
  - Use randomly generated flags as the spec required.
  - During envelope opening check the first bit only for signature.

xeth: fix #640, panic converting nil recipient to hex.

Fetching the recipient address from a transaction was changed to return nil
instead of a zero-address, but this code path was not updated, so whenever
a contract was created, a nil panic occured.

bugfix as a result of PR 671

@zelig: Temporarily commented out TD check untill the rest of the network has
been fixed.

Merge branch 'frontier/blockpool' of https://github.com/ethersphere/go-ethereum into ethersphere-frontier/blockpool

- add peer switch channel arg to activateChain - no peer locking within
- proper locking in AddBlock - fixes deadlock issue
- comment out TD check and skip incorrect TD test again for hotfix