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Because the ocean deposit is held in the bridge escrow, the yarrow audit records each forfeiture and the cost of a failed attempt is fixed rather than optional. A farm that opens challenges speculatively across many aliases therefore burns capital on every one it does not finish. Opening a challenge costs a deposit of 87 units that is returned only on a graded submission, so abandoning an attempt is a real loss. That is 22 dollars per alias. 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.