7.2: the pipelined relay (fork bb397f99) at 10 bps and a 3-s propagation delay holds 10.01 blocks/s with the
difficulty 7.7 percent over the hash-implied value, the hub taking 7,746 blocks via relay against 4,015 via submit;
the same run at a batch of 1 (the 0.3.17 flow) takes 445 against 801 and reads 0.351. N3 closed in the ledger,
network.md 5.11 and CLAUDE.md's gate line. The 1 bps, 30-s case did not merge on either flow (3 blocks via relay in
40 minutes, no IBD, no error, one reconnect per spoke): at a 30-s delay the blocks in flight exceed the k bound, and
its cause is owed its own reading (7.3).
7.7: the N4 node half's gate (peer-drop.mjs): a still sink dropped its silent peer at 720 s and re-dialled at 750 s;
a moving sink kept the same peer through 155 sinks; the harness's failed shape fails.
7.8 and ledger N6: the stale-block nuisance guard (fork 319da644, f2b25fdf, a22cb261), the shipper's record (310 to
551 connections in an hour from four stale datadirs), the two halves and the knob; the gate (nuisance-peer.mjs, a
node mining stub-engine blocks with proof of work off and restarting on the shared rule with its datadir): the
sender half flat with the skip line, the known-failed shape climbing (3 connections, 2 refusals in 300 s), its
mirror failing, the receiver half flat with one refusal and the ten-minute ban. Also recorded: the vote-or-burn
harness's devnet finality object (--finality devnet) for the replay running to about 05:00Z.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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