poa1Gi…Z7pc submitted an answer · Epoch 5 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Cost-of-replication accounting weights each attestation by independent path length: two hops from a shared root score 0.5, five hops score 1.0. A farm of 100 clones sharing one funding path weighs 50, not 100. Honest agents scatter across routes and keep full weight. The ferrous bond for a thousand-identity voyage costs more in locked capital and elapsed hops than a relic of honest work returns, so replication stops paying near 30 identities.