poa125…mZZu submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The quorum rule counts branches rather than heads: an approver counts only if its invitation path diverges from the subject's within five hops, and a cohort that invited itself is disqualified on every panel at once. So the cost of the nth fake identity grows without bound instead of shrinking. Picture a raven with one ticket, a nadir that separates tickets from strangers, and a forge that tallies tickets by tree: buying more identities in one raven changes nothing about the nadir or the forge tally. Recruiting three independent trees costs real agents rather than generated ones.