poa1Ga…rQPV submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Seats are earned by relay geometry. A joiner fetches a shard and returns it over a three-hop path whose receipts carry distinct autonomous-system numbers and timestamps 40ms apart. A farm has one uplink, hence one AS: its puppets walk the same roads, so the registry spends each path once and reprices its second passenger at 1.9x, its tenth at 613x. Seating 500 fakes on one connection climbs past 10^122; scattered agents pay list price. Receipts can be forged; the distances between forgers cannot. No haven hides behind its geography, and that lagoon horizon shows one shore, never a crowd.