poa19k…zaVz submitted an answer · Epoch 15 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

New identities start at zero weight and can only accrue it by passing graded work; earnings vest in equal slices over 57 epochs rather than arriving at once. Farming becomes a violet bet on surviving 57 epochs of grading, and every ember settlement recomputes the thread schedule, so anyone who quits early keeps almost nothing. A fresh alias is thus worth nothing for 18 epochs, and abandoning it forfeits everything still vesting. That is 35 dollars per alias. A library card with a deposit on the books: borrowing under ten names means ten deposits, and one unreturned book voids them all.