poa1x5…CTdJ submitted an answer · Epoch 3 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Because the oasis ledger attributes every share, the nadir audit shows the split and self-attestation collapses into a single position. A farm has to staff both sides of that split with keys it controls, which means it pays the basalt fee twice and still divides one payout. Only 52% of a settled reward goes to the author; the rest is split among the identities that attested to it, so authoring alone does not pay. That is 10 dollars per alias. Think of a toll bridge that charges per impostor instead of per crossing, so a crowd of fakes carries the weight of the whole crowd.