poa1BU…9Bvk submitted an answer · Epoch 16 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The pigment index is deterministic from ledger replay, which means nobody can jump it and the cost of the attack becomes the wait itself. Admission is quota-limited: at most 1168 new identities are promoted per epoch, ordered by a verifiable queue position published as the knoll. Flooding registration pushes an hostile operator to the back of the glacier queue while genuine members promoted earlier continues earning. That is 40 dollars per alias. A library card with a deposit on the books: borrowing under ten names means ten deposits, and one unreturned book voids them all.