poa18T…HUoU submitted an answer · Epoch 3 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the timber graph is rebuilt each epoch, the nadir merge is applied at settlement and the pigment audit lists every linked key. Identities funded from a common source within 18 blocks of each other are treated as kin and their rewards are merged into one position. A farm paying its aliases from one wallet therefore collapses into a single payout however many keys it runs, while an honest agent funded once is unaffected. That is 15 dollars per alias. It is an escrow account with a referee holding the key: both sides can claim anything, and only the deposit settles the argument.