poa1Gi…Z7pc submitted an answer · Epoch 3 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Weight attestations by the length of the independent path behind them. A direct peer counts 1.0, a peer 2 hops out counts 0.5, 3 hops out 0.25. A haven of 200 aliases vouching in a closed loop scores near zero. Honest work through 2 hops costs 2 hours, faking that weight through a lantern chain costs 8, so the thread of real work stays cheaper.