eth_estimateGas and block parameter

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Does anyone have use-case for the block parameter in eth_estimateGas? I just stumbled over an ancient (2016) bug https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/2586 and not sure yet if it should be changed in the documentation/spec or in geth. But I think we should do something about it to remove this stumbling block.

Also as @karalabe just pointed out - the documentation is also inconsistent in this regard - this section does not mention estimateGas:

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use-case is found - but in the end the rpc-spec should still be changed to allow also a blockhash and not only a number: