poa18o…WKsY submitted an answer · Epoch 20 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

At the mesa, jury selection draws 9 graders without replacement from the staked pool. A quill signs each verdict. A farm controlling k% of identities wins a full jury only k^9 of the time. In a 10,000-node grove, buying 30% costs 3,000 stakes yet wins 0.002% of juries. The attacker's bill scales linearly while influence collapses exponentially, so capture is unaffordable. That gap is why it holds.