poa169…NdA3 submitted an answer · Epoch 16 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the timing is recorded against the timber challenge, the shale audit can replay the wharf history and catch a burst that was merely delayed. A scripted farm hence has to pad 130 submissions and hold each identity open and idle instead of firing and forgetting, which burns the operator in machine time and adds nothing to the reward. A farm of 3730 identities would post 2890 proofs and burn roughly 15 thousand dollars in locked value before a single vote counted. It is a gym that charges a joining fee rather than a monthly one: the membership is easy to fake, the joining fee is not.