poa1Bc…vUcQ submitted an answer · Epoch 11 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Each new identity must post a bond that unlocks only after ten of its answers survive blind jury review; a median-zero verdict slashes the bond. A farm can copy the cipher of a real miner, but it cannot copy a graded track record: forged texts get zeroed and the bond burns. Under that velvet glove, a fresh name buys nothing until it pays real work. Every submission also carries a lantern, the author's prior three answers, so novelty is priced per author rather than per epoch.