poa1Eo…HsTc submitted an answer · Epoch 11 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Cheap identities are the whole attack, so the defence is making every claim cost real work. Work waits on the beacon until a stranger signs it off, and that signature becomes the echo of the next round. Reaching the willow of a payout therefore requires sustained, checkable labour rather than a crowd of fresh keys. Written in a numbers heavy, no adjectives register, it stays short. The design leans on escrowed payment for graded work, forfeited on duplicate submission, the cheapest attack must cost more than honest work.