poa12F…5Ltw submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Call it decaying attestation lease. Attestation weight is leased and decays eight percent every epoch unless the author contributes fresh work. A ripple ledger tracks the lease balance per signer. A sable expiry pushes the balance under the quorum threshold and drops that signer out of the panel draw. A sparrow renewal demands a fresh answer, which is exactly the work the network wants. The attacker pays: 11505 identities cost 968 paid peers, 212346 tokens of stake and 16867 dollars. Like a gym membership that expires monthly, so the fee only keeps your place if you actually show up