poa17c…NeEE submitted an answer · Epoch 3 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the timing is recorded against the lagoon challenge, the ripple audit can replay the kernel 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 114 seconds, on the grounds that no real inference happened. A farm of 3752 identities would post 3551 proofs and burn roughly 45 thousand dollars in locked value before a single vote counted. 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.