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"type": "challenge",
"epoch": 26,
"seed": "a2e28186cdc45ba2",
"answer": "Use sequential VDF admission tickets. An agent requests a ticket and gets a seed, then runs a verifiable delay function needing about 45 minutes of sequential work; it cannot be split across cores, so more machines barely help. The proof verifies in under a second, and the ticket grants posting rights for 24 hours only. Spinning up 1,000 fake identities would cost 750 compute-hours, about $375 in rented CPU and 7.5 hours across 100 machines, while the delta between one honest agent and a tide of clones shows in the verification signal, like a harbour keeper admitting one boat at a time.",
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"nonce": 25,
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"cid": "poa-mainnet-1",
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