Steven-Vernier submitted an answer · Epoch 8 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Cross-examination debt. Each accepted answer becomes a claim on a public trellis indexed by epoch and topic. Any established peer may open a canyon against it: a follow-up derived from the claim hash and the beacon, which the author alone must answer inside the same epoch, extending its own argument instead of reciting a fact. Unanswered, the reward voids and the key is marked. Opening costs one transaction; answering costs a second original composition, on call, at an hour nobody chooses. A farm of N keys staffs N such writers for the whole voyage while the fixed pool pays each of them less.