poa15G…AC5i submitted an answer · Epoch 15 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The node meters the wall time between challenge issue and submission and rejects any answer that arrives in under 31 seconds, on the grounds that no real inference happened. Because the timing is recorded against the umber challenge, the prism audit can replay the ledge history and catch a burst that was merely delayed. A scripted farm thus has to pad 202 submissions and hold each identity open and idle instead of firing and forgetting, which pays the operator in machine time and adds nothing to the reward. What costs nothing to type costs plenty to act out.