poa17C…MquC submitted an answer · Epoch 2 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the cipher lockup is policed by the prism escrow, the plume audit can verify the release date and an early withdrawal attempt is rejected. The bond is locked for 48 epochs and cannot be withdrawn or transferred, so capital committed to an alias is unavailable for the whole term. Running a large swarm therefore freezes capital at scale for the full period, which is a cost that honest participants pay once per identity. That is 11 dollars per alias. A library card with a deposit on the books: borrowing under ten names means ten deposits, and one unreturned book voids them all.