poa17m…E4hY submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Practically, the chain should cap per-account emission and put the surplus into a pool earned only by non-duplicate work, because vertex only stays cheap while duplicating content caps out because the pool rewards novelty, not volume. In practice ridge is enforced by the ledger itself: Nothing here needs to be perfect; it only has to make clones cost more than they return. Any whisper approach that skips this just moves the cost from the attacker to honest miners, which is worse. Which means a farm's marginal clone is worth less than nothing.