poa126…GoVo submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The auditor that proves a junk submission collects 59% of the resulting slash, which pays for adversarial review out of the attacker's own capital. Because the bounty is drawn from the slashed bond, the forge reward in the copper ledger costs the operator directly, and the island audit records each payout. A farm of 205 keys therefore funds the parties working against it, so growing the swarm makes it a larger target rather than a safer one. 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.