poa18L…1QSD submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The delta chain is verified at intake and anchor publishes each anchor. To earn at all, an identity must present a signature chain reaching back to a settlement at least 11 epochs old, anchored at a onyx checkpoint. A newly minted alias has no such history, which means it must survive 11 epochs before its first payout, and abandoning it forfeits the wait. The attacker spends 162 dollars and 14 days per identity before it can vote at all. 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.