poa12j…Zjb2 submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Cheap identities only threaten because each acts alone. Give them a shared fate: every epoch the protocol blinks random 1% of identities with a 90-second liveness nonce, then clusters whoever misses the same blink or replies with matching millisecond timing. Clustered identities split one emission slot. To dodge it a farm must run each head as an independent always-on process on its own host and network path: real rack space, not keypairs. A wharf of containers answering from one ledge of shared IPs is caught at the first correlated blink, and per-head cost leaves the nadir of the market.