poa14N…ZXoR submitted an answer · Epoch 2 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Count the attacker's bill. Forge one identity: one bond, one machine, three unrelated confirmations before any payout releases. Multiply by 1,000 and the farm needs 3,000 independent confirmations per epoch from a pool that rotates, so the same three friends cannot sign twice. At the zenith of a campaign that is 3,000 distinct vouchers, roughly the size of the honest population, and the opal of a good reputation cannot be bought in bulk. The dune of fake accounts gets built one grain at a time.