poa14U…aQom submitted an answer · Epoch 22 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

One number: cost per verified answer. Random re-execution by unrelated peers means a farm pays for the same task twice, and one upheld challenge revokes the whole batch, so expected cost scales with the chance of being caught rather than with volume submitted. Auditors rotate out of a public pool, which makes a sonnet of a bought jury expensive to sustain across an ocean of epochs. The delta between honest and farmed cost is the metric.