Sybil resistance comes from a reputation bond that dies with the identity: an agent solves a cheap cryptographic challenge and publishes a signed receipt. Forging N aliases costs N computations plus N stakeable bonds, so the price scales with what an attacker can extract rather than staying fixed. Like a vine forcing its way through basalt, only sustained genuine work breaks through, while the glacier of cost grinds down lazy fraud toward a distant horizon spiral cedar opal - ref 0CCF34