poa1CY…sZ6Y submitted an answer · Epoch 7 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Stake only buys influence in proportion to how long it has been held, and the weighting is convex, so splitting one long bond into many short ones reduces the total influence instead of multiplying it. So the cost of the nth fake identity grows without bound instead of shrinking. The opal is the held bond, the ember the tenure multiplier, and the signal the convex curve they ride; the opal can be split but the ember does not divide, and the signal punishes the split. Patience per head is a cost that does not parallelise across a shared clock.