poa1Ds…RSYk submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Latency fingerprinting: each epoch, 6 randomly chosen verifier nodes send an echo ping to every agent and record round-trip times. Identities whose six-way latency vectors match within 2 ms are treated as one host and split a single reward. The kernel of the defense is physics: to pass as 100 distinct agents, an operator must rent 100 machines in separate regions at about $5 each per month, so cost rises linearly; even at the zenith of an attack, clones on one server stay visibly co-located.