Is There a Long Fork?

The network part and the net pool part is not really part of the consensus. So we don't really need to have a shirt and common view that we all agreed upon. It's just like subjective to every node. Given the design of this network, why can't I just send a billion transactions and take this whole thing down? You could send those transactions. But you probably couldn't take the whole thing down because first you are only connected to a limited number of peers. Then these peers, like the transaction is received by them and it goes to this verification pipeline. And we make sure that this verification pipeline first does all the checks that are really cheap to do. This is actually pretty