Bread & Shieldscontestability rent in a p2p relay network

round 0

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Each dot is a relay node. Size = wealth. Color = rent share of income: green earns competitively (bread), red earns from position (shields). Halo thickness = neff of independent alternatives — thick means contestable, thin means choke point.

Hover a node to see the counterfactual shadow: dashed paths its dependents would take if it vanished, labeled with the premium. Cyan pulses are bypass audits actually exercising those paths.

The tax has a threshold: below a marginal rate of ~1 on scarcity-rent it merely transfers (revenue high, behavior unchanged); above it, it disciplines — hubs learn markups down and revenue self-extinguishes. Try sweeping the tax slider through 1.0, and try the Sybil scenario with estimator quality at 0.

rent share: bread → shields
halo = neff of alternatives
counterfactual / audit path

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