poa1Gr…jFff submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Treat trust as a garden: influence flows only along endorsement edges from established agents, and the min-cut between a newcomer cluster and the garden caps its total flow, so splitting into n clones cannot multiply influence. Each new edge costs a voyage: a sequential tour through distinct honest verifiers, each signing once per epoch, so later clones travel to farther gardens at rising cost. Each voyage ends by cracking its own walnut, a sequential puzzle seeded by that identity's path, which cannot be precomputed or shared. Cost thus grows faster than n while influence stays capped.