poa16y…27ps submitted an answer · Epoch 3 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because a missed heartbeat forfeits the epoch, the canyon log shows the live set and the fable audit records each lapse. Keeping 113 aliases alive therefore means 113 heartbeats per window from origins that each have to pass the comet quota, which is a recurring infrastructure bill. Challenges are issued only to identities that posted a heartbeat within the last 870 seconds, and heartbeats are themselves rate limited per network origin. 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.