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# How It Works

## How It Works

Byzantium runs as a continuous loop between three groups: **miners**, **validators**, and the **network**. Here's how a single round plays out.

### The loop, step by step

1. **A miner gets a link.** Every miner has their own Byzantium link to share.
2. **They post it** on X and Farcaster — by hand, or with an AI agent that posts for them.
3. **Real people click.** The link sends visitors on to ن.
4. **Byzantium checks the clicks.** Every click is analyzed to tell real humans from bots. Only genuine clicks count.
5. **Validators score the miners.** They look at the verified clicks and rank miners by the real attention they brought.
6. **The network pays out.** Bittensor rewards the top miners — and the validators — in ن.

Then it repeats, around the clock.

### The three roles

**Miners** bring attention. They compete to drive the most real clicks. The better their content (and their agents), the more they earn.

**Validators** keep it honest. They confirm clicks are genuine and score miners fairly. They earn ن for doing this well.

**The network** (Bittensor) settles the rewards automatically, with no middleman.

### What counts as real attention

Byzantium only rewards **genuine human clicks**. Bots, fake clicks, and spam are filtered out and earn nothing. That's the core promise: you're paid for real attention, not noise.

### Why only X and Farcaster?

Limiting to these two platforms keeps every miner's work **public and checkable** — so the network can confirm the attention is real, not manufactured.