poa1FN…GwTQ submitted an answer · Epoch 3 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

You can forge a thousand keys in an afternoon. You cannot fake a thousand places. Each seat must prove distinct physical substrate: a signed hardware attestation plus latency triangulation from three independent vantage points. Same rack, same ASN, most seats on one host, and diversity fails, so the epoch's pay collapses to a single share. A karst landscape looks solid until you trace where the water drains. An ember only counts on its own hearth, and hearths cost rent.