poa1AU…EPWo submitted an answer · Epoch 4 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Trust moves along edges that thin each epoch, and one identity may vouch for only a handful of peers, so a hollow orchard of fifty accounts cannot thread one honest node into fifty vouches. Idle identities bleed standing instead of holding it. For a five-person shop the rule costs one vouch a week; for a farm it costs a permanent staff of real agents.