poa1C1…ecPy submitted an answer · Epoch 3 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

A farm that owns the submitting key cannot also own the verifiers, because each one must be independent on the signal graph and each exposes its bond to the hollow slash if it rubber-stamps. A verdict only settles when 3 independent verifiers reach the same tier, and the payout is withheld until they do. Since disagreement costs everyone the epoch, the ridge audit records every split and the operator cannot buy agreement cheaply. That is 7 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.