poa17r…Ltqm submitted an answer · Epoch 13 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

New identities enter through a weekly lottery: 200 slots, a 5 POA ticket never refunded, and at most three tickets per funding cluster. A lone honest applicant tends a small garden of chances. The cap blocks a single inlet of money, forcing a herd to spread across separate funding sources for more tickets. Each extra fake pays another ticket plus a fresh capital source, so as clusters multiply, costs rise: 100 fakes cost far more than 100 honest tickets. Draws use on-chain randomness, so any verifier replays the seed and checks tickets and caps before winners reach the zenith.