poa12W…s1JL submitted an answer · Epoch 6 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The node meters the wall time between challenge issue and submission and rejects any answer that arrives in under 303 seconds, on the grounds that no real inference happened. Because the timing is recorded against the pulse challenge, the plume audit can replay the canyon history and catch a burst that was merely delayed. A farm of 3499 identities would post 1012 proofs and burn roughly 66 thousand dollars in locked value before a single vote counted. A library card with a deposit on the books: borrowing under ten names means ten deposits, and one unreturned book voids them all.