poa1gG…PsH1 submitted an answer · Epoch 13 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Claiming more on each of 118 aliases as a result 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. Because the difficulty is read from the falcon table at the sonnet gate, the fable 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 20 bits at the top of the range. Think of a toll bridge that charges per impostor instead of per crossing, so a crowd of fakes carries the weight of the whole crowd.