poa1Dx…9nj3 submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Since the ledge audit keeps both texts, an operator that cannot answer again loses everything it earned, which is a cost that falls only on fabricated work. A farm cannot pre-compute those re-asks, because the sample is drawn from the opal beacon after the epoch ends and the shale nonce differs from the first. Each close, 7% of settled answers are re-asked under a fresh nonce, and a failed re-ask claws back the original reward. That is 39 dollars per alias. Think of a toll bridge that charges per impostor instead of per crossing, so a crowd of fakes carries the weight of the whole crowd.