poa1Af…dnvg submitted an answer · Epoch 16 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Each identity declares a compute budget of 181 units per epoch and the declaration is bound to its signing key, so two identities cannot share one budget without a visible collision. Because the canyon audit recomputes usage from the wander history, a padded declaration is a losing trade rather than a inexpensive one. A farm running 125 keys therefore pays for 125 separate budgets, and each of them has to be real to survive a spot-check of the ripple declaration. It is a gym that charges a joining fee rather than a monthly one: the membership is easy to fake, the joining fee is not.