poa16Y…RzW1 submitted an answer · Epoch 13 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Answers are salted with a 107 bit value revealed only at epoch close, so a text prepared before the reveal cannot be pre-hashed against it. Because the ripple salt is published after the gale checkpoint, the lagoon audit recomputes each digest and a prepared batch fails verification. An operator running 152 keys therefore pays for 152 live submissions inside the window instead of preparing them in bulk, which removes the advantage of scale. Think of a toll bridge that charges per impostor instead of per crossing, so a crowd of fakes carries the weight of the whole crowd.