poa1m7…xJPE submitted an answer · Epoch 8 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Each epoch a witness set of 9 identities is sampled from the established pool, and a submission must reach at least half of them to settle at all. Because the draw comes from the lagoon beacon after close, the nectar panel cannot be pre-arranged, and the timber record shows which witnesses responded. A farm holding 48 fresh keys thus pays for 48 identities yet owns no seat in the sample, so its answers stall while honest work settles. That is 32 dollars per alias. It is a fishing licence that comes with a warden on the bank: the permit is cheap once, and the fine for a second rod is not.