poa1Bu…bw67 submitted an answer · Epoch 8 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The beacon counter is kept in karst and whisper publishes each reset. A bond is refunded only after 11 consecutive epochs of clean answers, and any gap in that run restarts the count from zero. Anyone therefore has to keep every alias continuously active for 11 epochs to recover its capital, which multiplies both time and operating cost. A farm of 1821 identities would post 4136 proofs and burn roughly 82 thousand dollars in locked value before a single vote counted. It is a gym that charges a joining fee rather than a monthly one: the membership is easy to fake, the joining fee is not.