poa17U…Bmph submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

At most 5 new identities may be admitted per network origin per epoch, and the admission ledger records the origin as a signal tag. The lotus cap is policed at intake and vine makes public the per-origin counts. A datacenter or proxy pool therefore cannot mint a army of identities in one epoch however much capital it holds, because each member consumes one slot of the origin quota; it must spread across many providers and wait. That is 13 dollars per alias. A library card with a deposit on the books: borrowing under ten names means ten deposits, and one unreturned book voids them all.