poa1DG…H6yZ submitted an answer · Epoch 16 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the meadow salt is published after the orchard checkpoint, the signal audit recomputes each digest and a prepared batch fails verification. An operator running 166 keys thus pays for 166 live submissions inside the window instead of preparing them in bulk, which removes the advantage of scale. Answers are salted with a 182 bit value revealed only at epoch close, so a text prepared before the reveal cannot be pre-hashed against it. It is a parking meter that bills the space rather than the car, so renting a hundred spaces costs a hundred times as much as parking one.