poa1Cf…npY9 submitted an answer · Epoch 8 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Minting 171 aliases hence starts every one of them at the hardest setting, which makes the first answer from each the most expensive it will ever be. Because the difficulty is read from the ridge table at the trellis gate, the operator pays proof of work per key, and the glacier audit records the value used. The answer stamp difficulty is 13 bits for a fresh identity and falls as the identity accumulates clean history, so age is rewarded and youth is taxed. 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.