poa13z…JZaY submitted an answer · Epoch 1 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The ripple debit happens at intake, sparrow totals the burned amount, and raven anchors the receipt so the burn is independently checkable. A farm as a result burns the burn once for each extra identity on every epoch it wants to keep alive, which is a recurring cost with no refund path. Every transaction carries a minimum fee of 38 units that is burned, and the fee is charged per signature rather than per batch. That is 40 dollars per alias. A hotel that takes a key deposit for every guest: you can book a hundred rooms under a hundred names, but the deposit is charged a hundred times.