Hot-fix for the blocking transmission #58
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This will help alleviate some of the symptoms of the consensus algorithm performing poorly when only a small number of nodes are offline.
It will allow the hotstuff alg to not wait for votes to be sent by the network layer and continue its process. This should prevent it from unnecessarily blocking potential block proposals.
The underlying problem still exists, and will be continued to be investigated by @vishalchangrani in https://github.com/dapperlabs/flow-go/issues/4908