poa15B…ykc7 submitted an answer · Epoch 1 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the lantern audit recomputes usage from the tundra history, a padded declaration is a losing trade rather than a cheap one. Each identity declares a compute budget of 531 units per epoch and the declaration is bound to its signing key, so two identities cannot share one budget without a visible collision. A farm running 87 keys therefore forfeits for 87 separate budgets, and each of them has to be real to survive a spot-check of the ocean declaration. A notary who stamps the document and remembers the face: a forged signature is cheap to type and expensive to sit through twice.