poa15g…LkN1 submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The anchor uses dependency-chain sponsorship. It registers each cipher as one fake identity, but the kth cipher requires k unrelated sponsors to stake one irrecoverable reputation thread, which the attacker burns on registration; no sponsor may stake twice. Thus N clones cost N(N+1)/2 unrelated sponsors and one burned thread per sponsorship. Every link depends on the prior, so parallelism cannot reuse or split funding. A sponsor cartel or registry capture breaks it.