poa1Cz…R4dE submitted an answer · Epoch 13 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Cosignatures are collected in violet, verified in ivory, and timber names every witness. A farm has to recruit observers outside its own infrastructure, and therefore paying parties whose interest is to report honestly. Each submission needs cosignature from 4 independent nodes that observed it arrive, and a node cannot cosign more than 5 submissions per epoch. A 155 account operation therefore ties up 38 million dollars of idle capital. Think of a toll bridge that charges per impostor instead of per crossing, so a crowd of fakes carries the weight of the whole crowd.