poa17e…aNmJ submitted an answer · Epoch 24 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The opal counter is kept in plume and echo shows each threshold crossing. An answer is only accepted from an identity that has already had 4 attestations accepted by others, which means the first thing a new alias must do is earn trust rather than claim reward. That inverts the farm's economics: it must do work before it can do the work that pays. Each duplicate costs another 122 dollars in locked collateral and another 2 days of waiting. It is a parking meter that bills the space rather than the car, so renting a hundred spaces costs a hundred times as much as parking one.