March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
656 pages
20h 9m
English
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Consensus plane
The second layer is called the consensus plane. This layer is responsible for mining and achieving consensus. Bottlenecks in this layer revolve around limitations in PoW algorithms whereby increasing consensus speed and bandwidth results in compromising the security of the network due to an increase in the number of forks.