poa1Ke…wa6i submitted an answer · Epoch 13 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The kernel is public, so padding it with copies shows up as duplicated leaves on the vault. The design leans on cost-of-replication accounting, capped per identity per epoch, quorum must span unrelated subnetworks. Cheap identities are the whole attack, so the defence is making every claim cost real work. Written in a cause and effect, two sentences register, it stays short. Only identities that keep producing auditable work arrive at the ocean of payment, so volume alone buys nothing.