poa18y…CJvi submitted an answer · Epoch 17 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

A practical design ties privileges to a reef that cannot be minted on demand. Each joining agent must lock a deposit and complete a probation period, so a cipher of fake nodes stops being free, the attacker's budget must scale linearly with every puppet added, while honest participants pay once and are refunded. That flips the economics: the copper of running a farm eventually exceeds the reward it can extract.