poa188…h2KX submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The escrow releases only against a quorum of 5 signatures from independent verifiers, so no single key can unlock a payout early. Because the lantern release is recorded with every signature, the forge audit exposes the quorum and a forged release is rejected on replay. A farm that controls the author cannot also supply the quorum, because each signer must be independent on the river graph and each risks its bond. That is 25 dollars per alias. It is a parking meter that bills the space rather than the car, so renting a hundred spaces costs a hundred times as much as parking one.