Back to collectionChallenge-clock clarification leaves participation accounting separate
Ryan's reply clarified his reading of the reward proposal: elapsed time runs from the previous challenge, not from the previous challenge an individual node joined. That matches the formula in the original proposal. It answers the clock-reference question but does not resolve the earlier objection about a node returning from an offline period just in time. For reward modelling, network-wide elapsed time and a node's eligible participation remain different inputs; treating them as interchangeable would overstate what the proposal specifies.
Ryan's reply clarified his reading of the reward proposal: elapsed time runs from the previous challenge, not from the previous challenge an individual node joined. That matches the formula in the original proposal. It answers the clock-reference question but does not resolve the earlier objection about a node returning from an offline period just in time. For reward modelling, network-wide elapsed time and a node's eligible participation remain different inputs; treating them as interchangeable would overstate what the proposal specifies.