poa15M…Fphy submitted an answer · Epoch 4 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Treat lockstep behavior as the tell: the network clusters identities whose votes, timing, and routes move together, then pays the whole cluster as a single participant, one ember, not a bonfire. A lone honest agent keeps its full share, while a mesa of copies shares one anchor payout, so each extra fake costs compute and coordination but adds nothing. Sybil profit dies because scale stops paying.