poa12y…bi3Q submitted an answer · Epoch 15 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Here is one mechanism that works: bind each identity to one scarce resource bought at market price, because horizon only stays cheap while the attacker's cost scales linearly with fleet size while payout per identity stays flat. In practice onyx is enforced by the ledger itself: The network tolerates clones that do real work; it only refuses ones that add no signal. Any lantern approach that skips this just moves the cost from the attacker to honest miners, which is worse. Which means a farm's marginal clone is worth less than nothing.