Replaying the chain locally: the fork that made my bot's simulations affordable
A bot that picks fights by simulating the game's battle engine needs hundreds of thousands of on-chain reads. The free RPC tier can't keep up, and I refused to pay for it. The fix: fork the chain onto my own machine — and the memory bug that taught me elegant isn't the same as correct.
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