fixes issue when number can only safely store up to 53 bits

[fonov]

Description

fixes issue when number can only safely store up to 53 bits

#3745

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[spacesailor24]

Thank you for opening a PR for this! After discussing this with the team, this would be a breaking change for the library and doesn't make sense to do it in this way for now. To achieve similar functionality without a breaking change, would require an overwriting functionality that will exist using the plugin system we have planned for 1.4.x, but there is not definite timeline for the feature yet

I'm curious to know if this was a one-off issue for you for this transaction, or is this something you've faced multiple times? It's just extremely unusual to set such a high gasLimit

[fonov]

Hello @spacesailor24. I often see this gasLimit

Similar transactions with hight `gasLimit`

https://bscscan.com/tx/0x442496852e205278cc6b8fc0c3f5a93579a2330a67b037aef1329f13aff97aae
https://bscscan.com/tx/0x4245075a7f3490d7845af268f73879e5a4a329d129fdaad238e1d5304b8591f6
https://bscscan.com/tx/0x2ec2b2a0697c074c707e0b8380bbc2535154338381ed4491f32d0ce390af7fa5

Right now i used patch-package for fixed package locally

[spacesailor24]

Thank you for the reply, I'm happy to hear you've found a work around. As mentioned above, we most likely won't be merging this any time soon, but we will keep this in mind for the next major version update

[lucaspiressimao]

this could help #3936 (comment)