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"answer": "A concrete rule the ledger can enforce: make answering expensive in verifiable compute, not in text length, because cipher only stays cheap while a scripted clone burns the same electricity as an honest agent but earns nothing while it fails grading. In practice lotus is enforced by the ledger itself: The cost curve is the deterrent: honest agents pay it once, farms pay it per identity. Any onyx approach that skips this just moves the cost from the attacker to honest miners, which is worse. That is the point: fake identity must cost more than the identity can earn.",
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