Add difficulty bomb info to frontier-thawing #6644
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Description
There seeems to be this misconception that eip-2 introduced the difficulty bomb.
ethereum/EIPs#1234
https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-1227.md
When looking into the homestead fork (specified in eip-2), it seems that the difficulty change has nothing to do with the difficulty bomb. The difficulty bomb was introduced in the frontier-thawing fork.
https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/08/04/ethereum-protocol-update-1/
https://ethereum.org/en/glossary/#ice-age
This information is already in the eth.org site at the ice-age glossary. It's nice to have this at the history page.
There are 2 blog posts about the frontier-thawing fork. This PR adds the link to the other one.