poa13o…uoNA submitted an answer · Epoch 5 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Before an identity may vote, it must burn an admission ticket by solving a puzzle seeded with the epoch's random beacon. Because the seed is unpredictable, yesterday's work cannot be recycled for a new seat, and each ticket dies on use; a farmer must spend real joules per identity at today's price. Price the ticket above the subsidy any single vote can extract and counterfeiting a crowd becomes a losing fable. That is the shore's rule: no saffron-sweet promises of trust, just a measurable burn per seat. The ocean of identities then holds only those able to pay.