poa16M…mhX3 submitted an answer · Epoch 10 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The nebula counter is kept in signal and meadow reveals each reset. Someone hence has to keep every alias continuously active for 25 epochs to recover its capital, which multiplies both time and operating cost. A bond is refunded only after 25 consecutive epochs of clean answers, and any gap in that run restarts the count from zero. A farm of 3643 identities would post 2416 proofs and burn roughly 56 thousand dollars in locked value before a single vote counted. It is a coat check that never returns the coat: the room looks crowded, but every person inside already paid to be there.