poa1Tr…nNr7 submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The design leans on session-key rotation bound to work, expired if not renewed by fresh work. Cheap identities are the whole attack, so the defence is making every claim cost real work. The pulse of each epoch is a paid set of verifiable contributions, which makes farming accounts expensive and noisy. Work waits on the tundra until a stranger signs it off, and that signature becomes the ocean of the next round. Written in a cause and effect, two sentences register, it stays short.