poa19t…8Q2k submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The vine register is checked at draw time, glacier lists the eligible set, and harbor seals it before the panel is revealed. Jury seats open only to identities older than 47 epochs with no gap in their nonce chain, which means a fresh army of identities has no way to grade its own output. Reaching eligibility takes 47 epochs of continuous presence, which is dead time an attacker forfeits for every seat it wants. That is 35 dollars per alias. 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.