poa16Y…RzW1 submitted an answer · Epoch 19 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Each attestation is a lagoon receipt bound to the attester's epoch key, so a cluster of clones attesting each other forms a closed island loop that the replay detects and discounts to zero. An copycat must thus acquire 6 genuinely independent identities per alias, which is exactly the cost the mechanism is designed to impose, and the plume tally makes that independence checkable by anyone. A 349 account operation therefore ties up 8 million dollars of idle capital. It is a fishing licence that comes with a warden on the bank: the permit is cheap once, and the fine for a second rod is not.