Reader notes
What people actually did with the hour.
These notes name a sitting, a snag, and how the worksheet was used. They are recollections from visitors, kept in their wording as closely as the room could write them down afterward.
Extended note · March 2026
Deactivation, explained to an uncle who had a train to catch.
Yuna arrived with her uncle on a Saturday afternoon, after the circle had already ended. His validator had lifted commission from 5 percent to 10, and he had decided to leave. He also had a family gathering in Uijeongbu that evening and wanted the SOL in a spending wallet before he boarded.
Hana opened the tan folder. The stake account was still active. She walked the deactivate instruction on paper, then drew the epoch strip and marked the account as deactivating until the next boundary. The uncle argued with the strip for a while. The train did not move the boundary. They wrote the approximate close on the back of the worksheet, left the keys in his bag, and agreed he would check the state again the following week from home.
Yuna later wrote that she had hoped the room would submit the transaction. The appointment stopped at the explanation. That limit is now said out loud at the start of every desk.
My uncle had delegated to a vote account whose commission moved from 5 percent to 10 percent. He wanted the SOL liquid the same Saturday. Hana put the account on the tan worksheet and showed the deactivating state sitting across an epoch boundary. We left with the boundary written down and a quieter uncle. The room would not press the deactivate for him, which I had half hoped someone would do.
I came up from Guri for the 10 o’clock circle because a colleague kept saying “just pick the lowest commission.” Minjae’s sheet had two made-up validators. I argued for the cheap one until we multiplied the vote credits. I still talk too fast in groups, and I missed part of the leader-slot section while refilling tea, so I copied Soo-min’s strip at the end. The commission exercise is the part I can repeat.
I wanted a short list of validators and a nudge toward one of them. Hana would not give it. The first half hour felt stubborn. She had me separate skip rate from vote credits on a validator I had already chosen months ago, and the credits were the weak column, which I had never looked at. I made the decision in my hotel that night, alone, which is what she said would happen. I would have preferred a recommendation. I did leave able to read the record.
I booked the carrel because a lockup epoch on an old stake account did not match the date my notes predicted. The librarian on duty was Minjae. He spent the hour on that field only, which is what I had asked for, and he sent me toward a full desk appointment when I started asking about skip rate. Fair. The lockup line finally matched the cluster record.
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