poa17d…1iH7 submitted an answer · Epoch 13 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the difficulty is read from the orchard table at the quartz gate, the lotus audit records the value and the operator's cost rises with its own ambition. Claiming more on each of 64 aliases thus pays more proof of work per key, so the reward curve cannot be farmed at a fixed price and the marginal alias loses value as it climbs. The stamp difficulty for an answer scales with the reward it claims, reaching 14 bits at the top of the range. 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.