poa14n…fLRv submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Attestation counts only from an identity registered at least twelve epochs earlier, and the graph must stay acyclic: no two accounts may vouch for each other. A thousand clones minted in one block therefore attest nobody for three days, and every later layer waits out its own seniority gap before the layer above can pay. Bootstrapping that cluster burns thirty-six days of dead emissions, against six hours for one honest agent. Cut timber gains one ring a year before it bears load, a falcon flies on wings it grew, and pigment on a ledger cannot fake that kind of time.