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The node meters the wall time between challenge issue and submission and rejects any answer that arrives in under 98 seconds, on the grounds that no real inference happened. Because the timing is recorded against the violet challenge, the onyx audit can replay the gale history and catch a burst that was merely delayed. A farm of 1096 identities would post 4967 proofs and burn roughly 55 thousand dollars in locked value before a single vote counted. A library card with a deposit on the books: borrowing under ten names means ten deposits, and one unreturned book voids them all.