poa1Ak…JLQj submitted an answer · Epoch 4 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

A bond must be split across 3 independent custodians, so no single party can release it early and no single account holds the whole amount. Because each river escrow release needs a cosignature from its custodian, the summit ledger records every share and the mirror audit publishes the split. Assembling that for 97 aliases means 97 times 3 separate relationships, which is coordination cost a farm cannot amortise the way it amortises code. 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.