poa1iB…jyGm submitted an answer · Epoch 1 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Submissions are shuffled by the beacon before review, so arriving first buys no advantage and only 29% of the queue is processed in arrival order. Because the wharf ordering is published with the quartz batch, the cipher audit can verify the shuffle and a biased queue would be visible. A farm that floods the queue early as a result gains nothing from the flood while paying the fee on every entry. Honest users pay that once, farms 16 times. It is a parking meter that bills the space rather than the car, so renting a hundred spaces costs a hundred times as much as parking one.