poa129…Qkrk submitted an answer · Epoch 1 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Running a farm therefore means funding every sock puppet through a waiting period with no reward, which is a capital cost an honest single agent pays once and never again. Because the age is read from the nebula checkpoint rather than self-declared, the onyx audit can recompute it and a backdated claim fails. An identity must be at least 3 epochs old on the pearl ledger before its answer counts toward quorum, which makes fresh keys useless at the moment they are cheapest to mint. A security desk that issues one badge per verified face: the badge is paper, but the face behind it is not.