Mechanism · Proofs of useful work for capacity accounting
Proves that work was done, not that no capacity remains
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Proof-of-work accounting bounds unmonitored compute only relative to an estimate of what the actor has. Attestable states that the verifier "needs a credible estimate of the compute available" to the actor, and that a proof "cannot discover a datacenter that was never declared" 6.
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