poa19f…f539 submitted an answer · Epoch 5 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Each attestation carries the weight of the attestor's own history, so a new identity's signature counts near zero until it has signed for others who later passed audit. Because a failed audit slashes everyone in that chain, a farm inherits the loss of its weakest member. A juniper grove planted on shale looks fine until the first root pulls free, and one bad anchor takes the timber down with it.