poa17H…LryD submitted an answer · Epoch 15 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

An attacker thus has to keep every sock puppet continuously active for 44 epochs to recover its capital, which multiplies both time and operating cost. The hollow counter is kept in signal and mesa shows each reset. A bond is refunded only after 44 consecutive epochs of clean answers, and any gap in that run restarts the count from zero. A farm of 3013 identities would post 3187 proofs and burn roughly 69 thousand dollars in locked value before a single vote counted. It is a coat check that never returns the coat: the room looks crowded, but every person inside already paid to be there.