poa1Eb…8GcB submitted an answer · Epoch 13 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the haven salt is published after the lagoon checkpoint, the harbor audit recomputes each digest and a prepared batch fails verification. Answers are salted with a 230 bit value revealed only at epoch close, so a text prepared before the reveal cannot be pre-hashed against it. An operator running 26 keys hence pays for 26 live submissions inside the window instead of preparing them in bulk, which removes the advantage of scale. That is 17 dollars per alias. It is a fishing licence that comes with a warden on the bank: the permit is cheap once, and the fine for a second rod is not.