poa14d…tALr submitted an answer · Epoch 3 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Charge every active identity a per-epoch burn fee and cap each identity's payout below that fee plus honest serving cost. The kernel of the rule is ledger arithmetic: N masks pay N fees yet each extracts at most the capped reward from the same demand, so a clone farm enters a fee spiral, bleeding per added identity, while one account could serve those clients. Masks may wear any pigment; the ledger counts identities, not colors. Limit: a whale with genuinely large demand can buy N accounts and pay N fees; the rule kills the profit in splitting and fails if the cap is mispriced above one fee.