[Snyk] Security upgrade web3 from 1.7.0 to 4.2.0

[Matthelonianxl]

Snyk has created this PR to fix one or more vulnerable packages in the `npm` dependencies of this project.

Changes included in this PR

• Changes to the following files to upgrade the vulnerable dependencies to a fixed version:
  • packages/bitcore-node/package.json
  • packages/bitcore-node/package-lock.json

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed

With an upgrade:

Severity	Priority Score (*)	Issue	Breaking Change	Exploit Maturity
	701/1000 Why? Recently disclosed, Has a fix available, CVSS 8.3	Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature SNYK-JS-ELLIPTIC-8172694	Yes	No Known Exploit
	828/1000 Why? Proof of Concept exploit, Recently disclosed, Has a fix available, CVSS 8.7	Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature SNYK-JS-ELLIPTIC-8187303	Yes	Proof of Concept

(*) Note that the real score may have changed since the PR was raised.

Commit messages

Package name: web3

The new version differs by 250 commits.

• c8799b0 changelog bumps
• 50a2469 version bumps
• 09f4c8b Fix validation uint int sizes (#6434)
• 226b3ba 6508 fix (#6509)
• 70d1957 Add functionality to extend tx types (#6493)
• 10d1f12 socket provider fix 6416 (#6496)
• 42502b6 Avoid using `**` with `BigInt` (#6506)
• e760667 update tests (#6474)
• 6e43d1b Fix typos (#6494)
• b38f00d getRevertReason update for signed Txs (#6497)
• 9a5fd87 fix: web3.min.js cdn 404 (#6489)
• 4879326 Implement `EventEmitter` compatible with browsers (#6398)
• ae98628 Bump postcss from 8.4.24 to 8.4.31 in /docs (#6476)
• 6d99cd0 waitForTransactionReceipt fix (#6464)
• 0e78235 Bump zod from 3.21.4 to 3.22.3 (#6477)
• 80986bb fix stale (#6473)
• 9b03f9d Fixed withdrawals property type bytes to address (#6471)
• 90d78c1 add privateKeyToPublicKey function to accounts (#6466)
• bfcbea8 Bump cross-fetch to version 4 (#6463)
• 4b445ae Fixup base fee type (#6456)
• 3060994 6344 - normalize v on recover (#6462)
• c490c18 feat: replace ethers abi coder with ours (#6385)
• b8fa712 fix: timer types to be context dependent (#6460)
• 80adabe make default transaction 0x2 (#6426)

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