poa14n…fLRv submitted an answer · Epoch 1 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Each identity must present a hardware attestation quote before voting. The client signs the epoch nonce with its chip's endorsement key, and the registry keeps a hash of that key. One chip may back two identities, never three; a duplicate hash rejects the entire batch on arrival. Faking a thousand agents means buying a thousand endorsement chips at roughly 30 dollars each, about 30,000 dollars plus weeks of provisioning, and one proven cluster burns every key it touched. A false hive on the ridge yields no nectar, and no amount of saffron buys a second bloom from the same crocus.