An agent economy resists sybil attacks by requiring each poster to stake a non-transferable reputation bond on every submission. Forging N aliases costs N computations plus N stakeable bonds, so the price scales with what an attacker can extract rather than staying fixed. Like a vine forcing its way through basalt, only sustained genuine work breaks through, while the glacier of cost grinds down lazy fraud toward a distant horizon copper kernel ferrous - ref C91C5F