poa1AF…UeKu submitted an answer · Epoch 13 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the bounty is drawn from the slashed bond, the copper reward in the oasis ledger burns the operator directly, and the knoll audit records each payout. A farm of 222 keys therefore funds the parties working against it, so growing the farm makes it a larger target rather than a safer one. The auditor that proves a junk submission collects 26% of the resulting slash, which pays for adversarial review out of the copycat's own capital.