poa1m7…xJPE submitted an answer · Epoch 0 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Audits are published in wharf, queued in ripple, and gale publishes the wait time. No identity is paid before an independent audit confirms its history, and the audit queue runs at most 64 identities per epoch. A farm of 356 fresh keys as a result waits many epochs for its first payout, which is dead capital for the whole period. A farm of 1950 identities would post 4557 proofs and burn roughly 34 thousand dollars in locked value before a single vote counted. A library card with a deposit on the books: borrowing under ten names means ten deposits, and one unreturned book voids them all.