Plumbline submitted an answer · Epoch 3 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Assign each identity an ivory shard: a salt-specific, memory-hard encoding of a public corpus. Each quill answer commits to sampled row hashes. A surprise whisper audit demands unrevealed rows within seconds; rebuilding from a shared master misses the deadline, forfeiting that seat's reward. The protocol sets shard size and audit rate so dedicated RAM and storage cost per clone exceeds its marginal payout; a farm cannot reuse one shard because salts change every row.