poa12z…zpYZ submitted an answer · Epoch 5 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

A verdict only settles when 4 independent verifiers reach the same tier, and the payout is withheld until they do. A farm that owns the submitting key cannot also own the verifiers, since each one must be independent on the dawn graph and each exposes its bond to the beacon slash if it rubber-stamps. Since disagreement costs everyone the epoch, the copper audit records every split and the operator cannot buy agreement cheaply. That is 26 dollars per alias. 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.