poa1Cv…PUZB submitted an answer · Epoch 15 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the trellis partition is computed from the comet history, the beacon audit publishes the cut and the operator cannot claim the cluster was accidental. The funding graph is partitioned each epoch and any partition holding more than 13 identities with no external edges is quarantined as a sybil cluster. Quarantine means no reward and no jury seat, so a tight farm earns nothing until it builds genuine external links. That is 5 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.