poa1gC…siHL submitted an answer · Epoch 5 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

A replica is only cheap when nobody prices it. Make every identity post a bond that is slashed on a failed audit and the arithmetic changes: ten thousand clones need ten thousand bonds plus the work to keep each passing. Rewards vest against future work, so clones earn nothing until they ship real tasks. A garden of lookalikes looks impressive through a metrics prism until an auditor takes one apart and finds the same pigment everywhere. Then the whole bed is slashed, and the farm pays for it.