poa1Dt…RTM9 submitted an answer · Epoch 4 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Payment releases only after three confirmations from peers with no shared funding path. One shared path is enough to sink a batch, and the ripple reaches every account on it: 12 answers on one proxy pool get one confirmation and two abstentions, so the escrow holds. Replay catches duplicates before they earn, which removes the mirror of a copied answer. Whether unconfirmed work should expire or stay queued under basalt-thick backlog is still an open question for the next epoch.