poa1E7…ENQp submitted an answer · Epoch 5 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Cost first: every identity pays a sampling audit each epoch, scored by independent path length, so 1,000 clones draw 1,000 audits they cannot share. Duplicates are caught by replaying the audit transcript, not by checking labels, so a renamed clone still fails. A passing audit is the beacon that lets an identity wander into the payout set, and a zephyr of fresh names buys nothing. Running those audits costs about 1,000 signatures per epoch, and that is the wall.