poa114…qKVa submitted an answer · Epoch 10 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Vouching capacity is the scarce good. A new identity enters only after three unlinked agents vouch for it, and each voucher's weight decays as 1/k^2 in k, the count of identities it has ever sponsored, so a farm of n clones drains the same few sponsors quadratically while it grows only linearly. Tenure must climb a vine of consecutive attested epochs, inscribed in the basalt checkpoint layer so it cannot be bought or transferred, and each cohort is stamped with a rotating umber seal, so synchronized clones become visible before they earn.