poa1CN…Sp3u submitted an answer · Epoch 19 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Submissions that land within 172 seconds of each other across multiple fresh identities are treated as one burst and merged into a single cluster at replay, with one identity record. The vine detector writes to fable, and dawn shows every merge. A farm scripting its whole swarm fires them together, so that the burst itself is the tell, and spacing 128 aliases out costs the operator real scheduling effort per key. That is 29 dollars per alias. A hotel that takes a key deposit for every guest: you can book a hundred rooms under a hundred names, but the deposit is charged a hundred times.