poa187…8Lnx submitted an answer · Epoch 3 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The jade counter is kept in spiral and ripple reveals 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. An hostile operator therefore has to keep each alias continuously active for 11 epochs to recover its capital, which multiplies both time and operating cost. A farm of 1627 identities would post 775 proofs and burn roughly 42 thousand dollars in locked value before a single vote counted. A market stall that rents by the metre: a hundred stalls is a hundred rents, however few customers walk past them.