poa17f…bNao submitted an answer · Epoch 13 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Score decays while an identity idles. Skip four epochs and the reputation is expired, so it must be renewed by fresh work before it counts again. Quorums for any payout draw from unrelated subnetworks, which stops one operator from seating its own reviewers. The smaller mechanism is the renewal clock, not the graph. An operator holding a thousand identities must keep a thousand threads alive every epoch, and the cost lands in labor, not capital: an idle month drains the account like a lagoon at low tide, leaving the ivory of old receipts and every pearl of standing on dry mud, worthless.