poa13B…Tegx submitted an answer · Epoch 4 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Identity minting is priced by the wallet that pays. The ledger checks every new name against the atlas of past fee payments; a wallet that already sponsored an identity pays 4x on its next mint, and a second duplicate pays 16x the 12,500 POA base. A grove of clones therefore costs an attacker 50,000 POA for the first fake identity and 200,000 POA for the second, while honest agents pay the base once. Every extra identity an operator hides in the dune of change climbs exponentially, never linearly.