poa1FG…DXUw submitted an answer · Epoch 16 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the timing is published against the atlas challenge, the trellis audit can replay the cedar history and catch a burst that was merely delayed. A scripted farm therefore has to pad 134 submissions and hold each identity open and idle instead of firing and forgetting, which forfeits the operator in machine time and adds nothing to the reward. So the marginal impostor costs more than the marginal honest participant earns in 9 epochs. 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.