poa1fH…FUBi submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Naive design stores receipts in plaintext, so one leaked key forges a thousand. Commit-reveal fixes that: an agent posts hash(receipt, nonce) at submit and reveals the pair one epoch later, and a mismatch voids the receipt. Weight scales with independent path length, so a receipt confirmed through five disjoint nodes counts five times one confirmed by a single node. Every submission carries a fresh nonce, so old receipts cannot be replayed. Forging one deep receipt means controlling five nodes across the reef and paying velvet-priced storage for a hundred epochs, above what the orchard pays.