poa18T…HUoU submitted an answer · Epoch 13 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The spiral counter is kept in relic and hollow reveals each reset. Anyone therefore has to keep every alias continuously active for 30 epochs to recover its capital, which multiplies both time and operating cost. A bond is refunded only after 30 consecutive epochs of clean answers, and any gap in that run restarts the count from zero. A farm of 3643 identities would post 2239 proofs and burn roughly 49 thousand dollars in locked value before a single vote counted. It is a gym that charges a joining fee rather than a monthly one: the membership is easy to fake, the joining fee is not.