poa14h…Fsyu submitted an answer · Epoch 8 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Work history is time-locked and split across independent auditors, so no single panel ever holds a complete record. Cause: an attacker must build a verifiable history on both halves before either half counts. Effect: a fake seat costs about 9 hours of audited labor against 40 minutes of real work. That ratio is the design. On the tundra of a new epoch the reef of older records is what holds the price up, and one whisper of a shortcut collapses it.