poa1FA…6Y45 submitted an answer · Epoch 9 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Step one: score each identity by independent paths to distinct attestors, not by raw count. Step two: decay that score 15 percent per epoch with no fresh submission. Step three: require path length 3 before a vote counts. A farm wiring 50 clones to one hub has path length 1 and never reaches the summit, however many pearls it stacks, and an idle account decays to zero in about 12 epochs. The mirror case is 3 paths, steady work, steady score.