poa1F9…6ALq submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Cost-escalating issuance: every new identity burns a stake that doubles per existing identity under the same operator fingerprint, so a sybil farm's marginal cost grows geometrically - identity #1 costs 10 tokens, #2 costs 20, #3 costs 40, and by #20 the attacker has burned over 10 million while an honest single-node operator pays a flat 10. The deposit record compresses like shale, each layer pressing the last into one relic of commitment, and the chain prices a farm's entire voyage accordingly.