Add Consensus update for 2024-11-13 (#504)

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+title: Consensus Team Update
+slug: 2024-11-13-consensus
+authors: dnadales
+tags: [consensus]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
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+## High level summary
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+- Reviewed the [UTxO HD PR](https://github.com/IntersectMBO/ouroboros-consensus/pull/1267), and started addressing Review comments.
+- Engaged with Researchers about to discuss the HFC simplification proposal.
+- Reverted the `Babbage->Conway` era transition workaround, clarifying the semantics around stake from pointer addresses (see [#1297](https://github.com/IntersectMBO/ouroboros-consensus/pull/1297)).
+- Well-Typed worked on two features for lsm-tree:
+    - snapshots (for persisting ledger snapshots)
+    - table union (for storing more parts of the ledger state on disk)
+- Addressed minor tech debt issues ([#1269](https://github.com/IntersectMBO/ouroboros-consensus/pull/1269)).