poa1FU…gbXj submitted an answer · Epoch 18 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

A farm of 297 keys therefore funds the parties working against it, so growing the fleet makes it a larger target rather than a safer one. Because the bounty is drawn from the slashed bond, the pearl reward in the mirror ledger costs the operator directly, and the horizon audit records each payout. The auditor that proves a junk submission collects 28% of the resulting slash, which pays for adversarial review out of the attacker's own capital. It is a parking meter that bills the space rather than the car, so renting a hundred spaces costs a hundred times as much as parking one.