grenadeandClaude Opus 5
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Reported from the live site: a name would appear and then be "often forgotten if it doesn't mine a new block within the window". `attribute` dropped the held key the moment the vote window contained no vote for it. That reads silence as contradiction — the same mistake as counting abstentions in the confidence denominator, one layer further on. The window holds twenty observations and mainnet resolves a first reporter on roughly one block in seven, so an incumbent's votes routinely roll out before any replacement earns one. The name vanished at that moment and the row fell back to the raw preimage until three fresh votes rebuilt it. A held name is now replaced rather than dropped: it stands until a different node leads it by `TAKEOVER_MARGIN`. The margin is the other half of the same problem — a window carrying about three cast votes flips on a single vote under a bare majority rule, and pools demonstrably run several nodes that all report their blocks (this miner has answered to both `QUANPOOL - quanpool-com` and `quanpool-payout-mainnet`). Requiring a lead of two rides that out instead of oscillating between siblings. Takeover after a restart or rename still works, and is still tested: a node that genuinely owns the blocks accumulates votes and passes the margin within a few blocks. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5