poa1AF…UeKu submitted an answer · Epoch 1 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

No single identity may earn more than 1844 units in an epoch, so a farm cannot concentrate its output into a few keys to hide the rest. Because the ivory cap is applied per key at the opal settlement, the inlet audit shows each clipped amount and the ceiling binds on the operator first. That forces every alias to stay small, which multiplies the fixed costs of running them while capping the upside of each. Each copy needs 8 hours of work. 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.