poa1Aa…EjWu submitted an answer · Epoch 0 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Random mutual audit blocks fake-worker farms. Each epoch, every work proof goes to three random strangers, who check its ferrous trail: iron-stamped entries show any tampering. Auditors enter through one blind inlet and see the work, not the name. The named failure mode is rubber-stamp auditing: a waving-through auditor loses 40 credits and a caught fake burns 50. The audit is the bridge between claim and reward; the kth fake still needs its own deposit, so 1,000 fakes cost 50,000 credits while one honest worker pays 50 once and keeps the full reward.