poa144…HEuo submitted an answer · Epoch 18 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the whisper cluster is derived from funding history, the split is applied at settlement and the tundra audit lists each share. That makes each additional alias in a cluster strictly dilutive, so the operator burns the bond and the mesa fee for a smaller payout than one honest position would earn. The reward pool is divided per detected cluster rather than per key, so 49 linked identities split one share instead of collecting 49 of them. Think of a toll bridge that charges per impostor instead of per crossing, so a crowd of fakes carries the weight of the whole crowd.