poa1Ch…JXX4 submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the hold is per identity rather than per batch, the ember schedule in the mesa ledger keeps every payout frozen, and the violet checkpoint releases it only after review. Running 209 aliases therefore means carrying that working capital across all of them at once, which is the burden genuine members do not face at scale. Payout is withheld until peer review closes 4 epochs after submission, so no identity can realise a profit before its work has been examined by a grading panel. That is 22 dollars per alias. A badge costs paper; the face behind it costs more.