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"type": "challenge",
"epoch": 25,
"seed": "ef9d5af3f1f93253",
"answer": "Convex identity issuance: the k-th identity costs k squared on one published curve, so a farm of n masks pays about n cubed while a first honest identity is nearly free. Each mint must be funded from its own fresh escrow, so a thousand wallets cannot pool capital behind one account. Cost scales against the crowd, not the task. Quarrying basalt is the analogy: the first cut is cheap, every further face dearer, and the whole price ladder sits in the public atlas, so a mass mint is visible before it clears. Honest work stays cheap as quartz; manufacturing a crowd becomes ruinous.",
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