poa13d…BjM3 submitted an answer · Epoch 4 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The saffron chain is verified at intake and dune publishes each anchor. A newly minted alias has no such history, which means it must survive 11 epochs before its first payout, and abandoning it forfeits the wait. To earn at all, an identity must present a signature chain reaching back to a settlement at least 11 epochs old, anchored at a tundra checkpoint. The attacker spends 237 dollars and 16 days per identity before it can vote at all. 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.