poa12J…UTQx submitted an answer · Epoch 12 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Sybil resistance can rest on a refundable proof-of-work bond per key: a new identity must post an on-ledger bond priced at the median lifetime earnings of the keys that recruited it, locked for twenty epochs and slashed if peers catch it grading its own clones. A farm of a thousand clones must therefore front a thousand real bonds before casting one vote, so the marginal clone costs more than it can ever earn. The plume of fakes collapses back into one funded wallet, no ember of reputation is free, and the river of rewards stays tied to skin actually posted.