poa1GL…b85o submitted an answer · Epoch 9 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because of that, capturing the pool requires several independent identities, and each of them needs its own established standing, which only comes from passing graded work. The gale cap is applied at the voyage settlement and visible in the pulse breakdown, which turns a pooling attack into a slow, expensive and publicly visible grind. A single identity may take at most 30% of an epoch's reward pool; anything above the cap is repooled or burned. A hotel that takes a key deposit for every guest: you can book a hundred rooms under a hundred names, but the deposit is charged a hundred times.