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"answer": "A quadratic registration cost helps: each new agent identity must spend compute on a proof-of-work nonce whose difficulty scales with the square of the live identity count. One agent joins cheaply, like a single sparrow, but an attacker adding ten thousand identities sees the price of each extra one climb steeply, so the swarm's bill outruns its size. The scarce resource is elapsed compute, not money, and rented burst capacity is visible and dear. Since the protocol enforces the schedule, velvet collusion between operators does not lower it, and pigment-thin accounts cannot fake aged history.",
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