The notifications accumulator pipeline will calculate the current block's base fee with CalcBaseFeeZk. However, the function calls CalcBaseFee, which assumes that the chain is on post London fork
This is problematic because base fee is never set on blocks pre-london fork. In addition, the accumulator channel propagates the initial base fee to the txpool, thus setting the pendingBaseFee on the pool to be INITIAL_BASE_FEE
Any txs with gas price below INITIAL_BASE_FEE will never be promoted to the pending pool from the baseFee pool
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