Refactoring/#219 applied ptb checks and fixes #226

Job	Run time
Run Slow or Expensive Tests (e.g. SaaS)?	1s
Checks / Version Check	24s
Checks / Unit Tests / build_and_test	1m 32s
Checks / Type Checking (Python-3.10)	38s
Checks / Linting (Python-3.10)	1m 17s
Gate 1 - Regular CI	1s
metrics / Generate Status Report	0s
iTests (with DB) / build_and_test	8m 22s
iTests (no DB) / Prepare Matrix for integration tests without DB	24s
iTests (no DB) / Run test_broadcast.py	36s
iTests (no DB) / Run test_gather.py	38s
iTests (no DB) / Run test_communicator.py	2m 47s
iTests (no DB) / Run test_multi_node_discovery.py	23m 36s
iTests (no DB) / Run test_localhost_discovery.py	22m 12s
iTests (no DB) / Run test_poll.py	42s
iTests (no DB) / Run test_add_peer_and_close.py	34m 44s
iTests (no DB) / Run test_add_peer_forward_and_wait_for_peers.py	35m 57s
iTests (no DB) / Run test_add_peer_and_wait_close.py	3m 2s
iTests (no DB) / Run test_send_recv.py	35m 5s
iTests (no DB) / Run test_add_peer_and_wait_for_peers.py	33m 53s
iTests (no DB) / Run test_add_peer_forward_and_close.py	34m 54s
Gate 2 - Allow Merge	1s
	4h 0m 46s

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