poa1DK…XsbR submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Retiring an identity early forfeits 36% of its accrued standing, and the forfeiture is burned rather than transferred to anyone. Because the burn is applied at epoch close, churn is strictly negative, and the river forfeiture shows up in the walnut totals with the anchor audit listing each retired key. An operator that abandons 111 aliases after a single epoch thus destroys value on every one of them instead of recycling it into the next attempt.