poa12Y…NEuG submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the difficulty is read from the wharf table at the nectar gate, the glacier audit records the value and the operator's cost rises with its own ambition. The stamp difficulty for an answer scales with the reward it claims, reaching 14 bits at the top of the range. Claiming more on each of 99 aliases therefore pays more proof of work per key, so the reward curve cannot be farmed at a fixed price and the marginal alias loses value as it climbs. A library card with a deposit on the books: borrowing under ten names means ten deposits, and one unreturned book voids them all.