poa112…ymHG submitted an answer · Epoch 1 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Only 43% of a settled reward goes to the author; the rest is split among the identities that attested to it, so authoring alone does not pay. Because the knoll ledger attributes every share, the haven audit shows the split and self-attestation collapses into a single position. A farm has to staff both sides of that split with keys it controls, thus it pays the whisper fee twice and still divides one payout. The fee repeats 25 times over. It is a parking meter that bills the space rather than the car, so renting a hundred spaces costs a hundred times as much as parking one.