igneum/docs/plans/consequences-decisions.md

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Consequence decisions for the project lead (night of 5 October 2026)

Sibling of ledger-decisions.md. Each is a consequence of a measured number that needs the project lead: money, a public claim, or a consensus parameter outside tonight's delegation. The row number points at consequences-2026-10-05.md. Recommendation first, then the options.

# Row What needs deciding Recommendation Why
D1 C1 The fee switch lands at H = 210,000 about 19:50Z on 6 October, and the 0.3.10 node's export does not carry the switch, so every app prover's shards are refused or vetoed from H. Move H, or race 0.3.11 onto every prover first If 0.3.11 (with the proving-v1 fork, whose export carries daaScore and feesV1ActivationDaa) is not on every prover by 16:00Z on 6 October, republish the override with H = tip + 86,400 rounded to the next thousand, re-read the digest on a scratch node, every node in one sweep (the fee-switch plan's own rule for a later H). The coordinator holds the devnet delegation; this note is so the morning does not find proving dark A dark proving pool on the devnet costs nothing on chain (the escrow keeps it) but every coverage, latency and fleet number measured after H is void
D2 C3 The litepaper says "12 GB or more proves full shards"; the only measurement puts the prover alone at 13.8 GB on a 32 GB card Keep the sentence only if the sweep lands a full v1 shard under 11.5 GB with the SP1 knobs; otherwise change to "24 GB proves and mines on one card; 12 and 16 GB cards prove with the miner paused" until the RTX 3060 on order measures it A public number that the first 3060 owner disproves is the FUD the ledger exists to prevent
D3 C8, C13 The homepage says "Any 4 GB card" and the litepaper says a 4 GB card mines for about four years and an 8 GB card for more than a decade; the tile says "4B hard cap" while the rule mints about 3.96 billion Replace with the lifetime table's numbers once the sub-agent lands it: "4 GB cards mine at launch; 8 GB for about six years; 12 GB for about fourteen; the dataset grows half a gigabyte a year" and "cap 4 billion, about 3.96 billion ever minted" The schedule is public and the arithmetic is one line; a reader will do it
D4 C9, C8 Index mapping at gate 1, now with the lifetime table (docs/analysis/card-lifetime-2026-10-05.md): (a) multiply-shift, continuous growth: 4 GB cards out at 1.0 to 1.5 years, 8 GB at 6.3 to 7.5, 12 GB at 12 to 13.5, Apple 8 GB at 2.6 to 3.4; (b) power-of-two steps at years 4, 12, 28, 60: 4 GB to year 4, 8 GB to year 12, 12 GB to year 28 (the cache freed after the build, decided by the coordinator at 22:50), each tier ending on a step day (b), with the step calendar published on the miners page from day one (the years 4, 12, 28 and 60 named beside the tiers), and the 1 GiB vectors kept. Revised from (a) at 23:0x: the table shows (b) is the only mapping under which the litepaper's "4 GB about four years, 8 GB more than a decade" holds, and a step day known twelve years ahead is a schedule, not an event; the coordinator recommends the same Under (a) both public sentences are wrong today by 2.5 to 5 years; under (b) they hold and the cliffs are dated
D5 C10 The site's "under 2x" chip claim: the scratch layer leaves the on-die-cache recompute chip at 2.4x at every share; the mixer multiplier x2 brings it to 1.2x at twice the CPU verify cost (about 0.9 ms per warp, half the pool members per core) Carry the mixer x2 into class v3 on the devnet tonight (the coordinator's gates apply, the verify time per warp measured) and keep the claim; if the coordinator judges it outside the delegation, qualify the claim in level 3 until the project lead says The claim is the project's first public sentence on chips; it is either true by a measured lever or it is marked
D6 C11 Whether class v3 should favour AMD (fewer, wider loads per hash) at a cost to the 5090's latency-bound share, or accept that AMD cards mine at about a seventh of a 5090 and 4.5x the electricity per hash Accept it for v3 and say so on the miners page ("NVIDIA first; AMD mines at a lower rate per watt on this class"); open the AMD question as a Counter ASIC 3.0 item with its own measurement Tonight's rule was the project lead's and the 5090 margin is the anti-chip argument; AMD's position is a public-copy question, not a gate
D7 C13 Same as D3's supply wording with D3
D8 C7 The miner page says "One click: install, start, the card mines and proves" (site/miner.html 7, 13, 21; site/index.html 484). On HiveOS and the rig installer a rig mines only until a Linux prover build is published, and on the app a 12 GB card mines only, a 16 GB card proves with the miner paused, 20 GB and up does both (the sweep of 5 October, before the v1-shard row) Qualify the sentence on the miner page and the homepage card: "the card mines; 20 GB cards prove too; rigs mine until the Linux prover ships" The sentence is the product's first promise and tonight's measurement bounds it by card