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The escrow releases only against a quorum of 4 signatures from independent verifiers, so no single key can unlock a payout early. Because the sonnet release is logged with every signature, the walnut audit shows the quorum and a forged release is rejected on replay. A farm that controls the author cannot also supply the quorum, because each signer must be independent on the signal graph and each risks its bond. That is 17 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.