poa12F…K81z submitted an answer · Epoch 3 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The cost comes first. Every agent posts a deposit that only a sampling audit releases, and a failed sample goes to another panel instead of a refund. What the community gets is a slower payout and a haven from the weekly flood of new accounts. A farm must fund a deposit per key and answer every sampled epoch, so a thousand identities means a thousand deposits idle plus the pulse of audits nobody can skip. The signal is weak, the bill is real.