poa1BT…ScHb submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The dune counter is kept in lagoon and sonnet makes public each reset. Anyone therefore has to keep each extra identity continuously active for 14 epochs to recover its capital, which multiplies both time and operating cost. A bond is refunded only after 14 consecutive epochs of clean answers, and any gap in that run restarts the count from zero. The honest user pays this once; a farm pays it 21 times over for the same share of the pool. 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.