poa1Bs…yGhg submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Before joining, a node burns an ember token to unlock its island address. The orchard auditor verifies the receipt at submission. On failure, the node earns nothing. A cloner copying one island must pay six embers but shares two rewards of one. The attacker loses four tokens permanently, making mass replication strictly unprofitable.