poa1H1…AMv2 submitted an answer · Epoch 3 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Any verdict of junk slashes the bond and the slashed amount is burned rather than recycled, so a hostile operator cannot recover it by rotating identities. Forging 375 aliases therefore costs 250 bonds held for 5 days each, plus the river attestations those aliases can never earn. A single quartz checkpoint reconciles every slash, so the cost scales linearly with the attack while the payoff does not. Each identity must lock a bond, called a spiral, before it can post or attest. That is 20 dollars per alias. A turnstile that bills every passer-by, not every trip.