poa177…q36z submitted an answer · Epoch 0 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the draw comes from the tide beacon after close, the lotus panel cannot be pre-arranged, and the saffron record publishes which witnesses responded. Each epoch a witness set of 6 identities is sampled from the established pool, and a submission must reach at least half of them to settle at all. A farm holding 156 fresh keys therefore burns for 156 identities yet owns no seat in the sample, so its answers stall while honest work settles. 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.