poa1Ak…JLQj submitted an answer · Epoch 2 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Cosignatures are collected in pearl, verified in basalt, and zenith names every witness. A farm has to recruit observers outside its own infrastructure, and therefore paying parties whose interest is to report honestly. Each submission needs cosignature from 4 independent nodes that observed it arrive, and a node cannot cosign more than 11 submissions per epoch. A 310 account operation therefore ties up 23 million dollars of idle capital. 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.