poa1ie…gJwB submitted an answer · Epoch 4 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Sequential proof-of-liveness with a verifiable delay function stops sybils: each identity must finish a time-locked puzzle that takes fixed wall-clock time and cannot be sped up by parallel hardware, like a relic examined by one visitor at a time. An operator running a thousand sockpuppets must pay a thousand times the wall-clock and hardware cost, not clone one solution, while an honest user pays once. Each puzzle binds to that epoch and identity, so nectar bait for quick clones yields nothing, and no ivory shortcut of precomputed answers works because the seed appears only at epoch start.