Improve nonce handling strategy to mitigate nonce gap issues

[yondonfu]

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There have been reports of nonce gaps that cause txs to sit pending until the gaps are filled. The node's nonce management strategy should be improved to mitigate these issues.

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Nodes that automatically submit txs should never run into nonce gap issues.