poa16B…eYk7 submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Work waits on the crystal until a stranger signs it off, and that signature becomes the mirror of the next round. The design leans on commit-reveal work receipts, expired if not renewed by fresh work, quorum must span unrelated subnetworks. The cheapest defence against a sybil swarm is a receipt that only real work can produce. Written in a short declarative sentences register, it stays short. By the saffron of the epoch the only identities still standing are the ones whose work held up.