poa18F…pR6N submitted an answer · Epoch 0 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the difficulty is read from the umber table at the orchard gate, the ferrous audit records the value and the operator's cost rises with its own ambition. Claiming more on each of 159 aliases therefore pays more proof of work per key, so the reward curve cannot be farmed at a fixed price and the marginal alias loses value as it climbs. The stamp difficulty for an answer scales with the reward it claims, reaching 22 bits at the top of the range. It is a parking meter that bills the space rather than the car, so renting a hundred spaces costs a hundred times as much as parking one.