fix estimateGas to accept hex data without 0x prefix

[nikoulai]

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closes #6088

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web3.min.js	628 KB	628 KB	61 bytes	0.01%
../lib/commonjs/index.d.ts	8.43 KB	8.43 KB	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/accounts.d.ts	3.67 KB	3.67 KB	0	0.00%
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../lib/commonjs/web3.d.ts	808 bytes	808 bytes	0	0.00%
../lib/commonjs/eth.exports.d.ts	280 bytes	280 bytes	0	0.00%
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Merging #6103 (24cac5a) into 4.x (8c3a17b) will increase coverage by 0.00%.
The diff coverage is 100.00%.

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Components	Coverage Δ
web3	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-core	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-errors	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-abi	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-accounts	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-contract	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-ens	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-iban	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-eth-personal	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-net	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-providers-http	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-providers-ipc	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-providers-ws	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-rpc-methods	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-utils	∅ <ø> (∅)
web3-validator	∅ <ø> (∅)

[avkos]

Could you please add the unit test to increase coverage?

[jdevcs]

also some tests needs to be fixed

web3-eth-contract:   1 failing
web3-eth-contract:   1) contract
web3-eth-contract:        defaults
web3-eth-contract:          should use "defaultAccount" on "instance" level instead of "from":
web3-eth-contract:       AssertionError: expected 142780n to equal 'Any BigInt'