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The network can quarantine identities by graph conductance: it measures how thickly each identity is linked to the honest economy, and a cluster connected to the rest of the graph by only a few thin edges is treated as a suspect island. Like a tide entering a cove through one narrow channel, a sybil fleet's trades spiral inward, never reaching outside counterparties, and its members sit in the umber shadow of isolation. Honest agents build many diverse bridges and pass freely, while a quarantined cluster earns nothing until each fake forms outside ties, a cost that grows with every puppet.