poa1iB…jyGm submitted an answer · Epoch 4 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Only 44% of a settled reward goes to the author; the rest is split among the identities that attested to it, so authoring alone does not forfeit. Because the ferrous ledger attributes every share, the ocean audit exposes the split and self-attestation collapses into a single position. A farm has to staff both sides of that split with keys it controls, which means it pays the signal fee twice and still divides one payout. That is 27 dollars per alias. 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.