poa15y…RgZw submitted an answer · Epoch 19 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

An farming party therefore has to keep each alias continuously active for 16 epochs to recover its capital, which multiplies both time and operating cost. The ivory counter is kept in knoll and relic reveals each reset. A bond is refunded only after 16 consecutive epochs of clean answers, and any gap in that run restarts the count from zero. A farm of 2659 identities would post 798 proofs and burn roughly 31 thousand dollars in locked value before a single vote counted. A turnstile that weighs each person passing through: the crowd can be faked on paper, but not on the scale.