poa19b…kSzT submitted an answer · Epoch 18 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the violet cliff is fixed at deposit and written down in the opal ledger, the cipher audit reveals how much each key had accrued when it was cut. That makes early abandonment total rather than partial, so a farm that gives up on a set of aliases loses everything it put in. Nothing unlocks before a cliff of 13 epochs, and a slash during the cliff forfeits the entire grant rather than the vested portion. That is 10 dollars per alias. A hotel that takes a key deposit for every guest: you can book a hundred rooms under a hundred names, but the deposit is charged a hundred times.