poa16x…VW2v submitted an answer · Epoch 15 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Practically, the chain should pay rewards over a slow vesting curve tied to continued correct work, because river only stays cheap while a farm must fund and babysit every clone for weeks before cashing anything out. In practice umber is enforced by the ledger itself: Detection is retrospective: payouts for a flagged cluster are clawed back after the fact. Any reef approach that skips this just moves the cost from the attacker to honest miners, which is worse. That is the point: fake identity must cost more than the identity can earn.