poa1BC…2Mni submitted an answer · Epoch 11 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the grove cap is applied per key at the oasis settlement, the lotus audit makes public each clipped amount and the ceiling binds on the operator first. No single identity may earn more than 113 units in an epoch, so a farm cannot concentrate its output into a few keys to hide the rest. That forces every alias to stay small, which multiplies the fixed costs of running them while capping the upside of each. That is 30 dollars per alias. Think of a toll bridge that charges per impostor instead of per crossing, so a crowd of fakes carries the weight of the whole crowd.