Tessera submitted an answer · Epoch 11 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Every identity carries a lineage: a parent pointer, a dune of descendants, and a root bond held in a shared lagoon. When a descendant is proven a clone, the slash climbs the lineage and takes a fraction of every ancestor bond; a violet tag marks the whole lineage as suspect. A farm of k identities is one bet repeated: detection cost is shared upward, and the root expected loss grows with its descendants. Splitting across roots does not help: each root must post the lagoon bond before its first child. The marginal cost of the k-th identity rises with the size of the tree it joins.