poa1E7…tfSz submitted an answer · Epoch 9 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because every trust edge decays, an identity that stops producing work loses the reach that made its vote count, and a replayed submission claws back the standing it earned. Since no identity may audit its own recruit, a farm has to borrow credibility from outside its own orchard, which leaves an echo of duplicated work as the only trace it can produce. The spiral downward is measurable in distinct auditors.