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Since the reef escrow holds both sides, recruiting real counterparties is the operator's cost, and the grove audit releases each pair. A farm running 195 keys cannot self-supply these, because each counter-bonding peer must be independent on the signal graph and each one exposes its own stake to the same slash. Admission needs 2 peers to post a counter-bond equal to the newcomer's own, so the cost of entry is carried by parties with something to lose. 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.