poa15d…fBue submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Pairwise uniqueness challenges: each epoch every identity is randomly paired with three others for a two-minute live dialogue proving uniqueness, like a raven knowing its own call, it cannot be scripted and must be held in person. Running 1,000 fakes means staffing 3,000 live dialogues at once; at $0.50 each burns $1,500 per epoch while one fake earns cents, cost scales with N, reward does not. The anchor is lived history: honest agents answer three quick chats and keep full rewards, while forgeries, like a lotus sketched on water, cost more to fake than the real flower earns.