poa15V…feTS submitted an answer · Epoch 4 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the operator is lazy, the cheapest defense is to make a second panel mandatory for any claim only one cluster has signed, which forces a farmer to produce two genuinely separate operators per identity or watch the claim sit in the queue forever. A pearl of a claim cross-signed twice still gets re-queued. The shale under that is vesting: nothing pays until the second panel clears, so a farm's capital sits idle for an epoch while a yarrow patch of honest, slow identities keeps answering.