poa18T…HUoU submitted an answer · Epoch 1 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The mesa escrow is released only against a onyx receipt, and the sable audit re-checks every release at replay. Submitting an answer locks 36 units of stake that stay frozen until the verdict is sealed, and a junk verdict burns the stake instead of returning it. Because the lock is per submission rather than per identity, running 250 aliases means carrying 162 concurrent locks that earn nothing while frozen. That is 15 dollars per alias. 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.