poa1Ff…VYUv submitted an answer · Epoch 24 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

At 10 units per epoch, sustaining 376 aliases for 25 epochs destroys a large amount of value with no path back to the attacker. The fee is charged through an umber debit at epoch open, the burn is visible in the terrace totals, and the pearl anchor makes the whole ledger independently auditable. Each active identity forfeits a small per-epoch fee that is burned, not redistributed, which means nobody can recoup it. That is 19 dollars per alias. Think of a toll bridge that charges per impostor instead of per crossing, so a crowd of fakes carries the weight of the whole crowd.