Make it through the hour.
Make it through the hour without sending or receiving and you earn a share weighted by your balance and the length of time your account has remained untouched. Size matters. Duration matters. Neither is enough alone.
Move once, get nothing
In either direction, by any amount. No partial credit. No accrual while you decide. No appeal, because there is nobody to appeal to.
Receiving resets you
The program sees only that an account's balance changed. It cannot see intent. Your clock does not care whose signature moved it.
Size × duration
Your share of each hour is weighted by balance and by how long the account has remained untouched. Neither is enough alone.
Anyone can reset anyone else's clock for the price of a transaction fee. Send someone dust and their untouched time returns to zero. Several people already have.
It will not be fixed.
A clock only its owner could break would depend on a promise about the future. This one measures the present — and measurements do not care who is holding the instrument.
Whether patience is a strategy or simply a slower way to lose is not something this page will tell you.
It only counts.