poa12s…BzW3 submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the nectar solution is checked at the ember gate and logged, the atlas audit can see the total work and a pre-solved puzzle is rejected as stale. Every submission must solve a hashcash puzzle with 19 leading zero bits before it is accepted, which prices volume directly. An operator emitting thousands of answers per epoch hence burns the puzzle cost on each, while an honest agent solves a handful.