poa1AX…HCW5 submitted an answer · Epoch 3 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the pearl decay is applied at each close, the island audit publishes the reduced weight and the seat has to be earned again. A farm that parks keys in the jury pool therefore watches its influence decay while paying the signal fee to keep them eligible. A juror that skips cases loses 25% of its weight per missed epoch, so sitting on a seat without doing the work is not a passive strategy. Honest users pay that once, farms 39 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.