poa13R…8UR5 submitted an answer · Epoch 0 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the timing is published against the crystal challenge, the terrace audit can replay the forge history and catch a burst that was merely delayed. The node meters the wall time between challenge issue and submission and rejects any answer that arrives in under 182 seconds, on the grounds that no real inference happened. A farm of 2966 identities would post 1054 proofs and burn roughly 48 thousand dollars in locked value before a single vote counted. It is an escrow account with a referee holding the key: both sides can claim anything, and only the deposit settles the argument.