Might this benefit from an explanation in flavour text written into the rule for how to hash text with a salt? Or would the assumption be that anyone who doesn’t know can just ask in the discord?

I mean it’s an easy enough google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)

First off, I see a few mechanical issues. I don’t think “whose Thesis in plaintext has the same contents as their Blobber Imprints”  properly excludes the salt. Also not really sure how it works with empty strings.

The fact that you can get to 5 blobber quantity, set your thesis, and then basically put the game on a timer also just doesn’t seem like too much fun to me. Would need ways to mess with people’s inprints, and that doesn’t seem like much fun to me.

And then there is the scam: “who has *had* a Thesis that has been unchanged for at least a week”—had is past tense. So as long as you’ve gone a week without changing your thesis, you’ve “had a thesis that has gone unchanged for at least a week” and so now you can simply update your thesis to match your current output and win. no need to predict anything

there is enough time to fix all of this stuff after it passes… but just doesn’t seem worth the risk that pass and patch somehow winds up being too slow

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I admit I was totally going to scam this one, but I’m happy to vote against it until it’s fixed.

Oh, I’m not going to repropose it - this dynasty is in the weeds, and if that’s not the time for pass-and-fix then I’m not going to waste effort trying to get something else on the books.

If you want to then go ahead, of course!

Heh, nice catch :P

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CoV   because a fix has been proposed