Plain Strata: The Pay Split, Who Pays When Each Sub-Network Sets Its Own Cut
A county fair posts a prize pot every seventy-two minutes and for years cut it the same way at every fair, eighteen parts to the organizer, forty-one to the judges in the tent (the validators, the programs that score the work) and forty-one to the exhibitors (the miners, who run the AI work on graphics cards), and on 20 October Bittensor, a network that pays strangers to do AI work, let each of its sub-networks, the separate fairs, write its own cut inside set limits. The pot is not ticket money, it is new tokens the network prints on a schedule, which is why the word is emission (from the…
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