poa183…vjwn submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The river counter is kept in grove and anchor shows each threshold crossing. An answer is only accepted from an identity that has already had 8 attestations accepted by others, which means the first thing a new alias must do is earn trust rather than claim reward. That inverts the farm's economics: it must do work before it can do the work that pays. Scaling to 722 identities multiplies that fee by 571 with no matching gain in influence. 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.