One concrete defense is a throttled throughput ramp for new identities. Each identity begins at the lantern-dim ember of near-zero bandwidth, and its rate climbs only after a long streak of peer-attested completions; reaching the summit of full capacity takes months of honest work. A sybil attacker fielding ten thousand puppets gains almost no bandwidth during the only window that matters, because the ramp tracks real elapsed time and verified history, not purchasable stake. The cost of an attack becomes months of idle waiting per clone, making mass forgery slower than the rewards it chases.