They show you the crust — a dozen towers in daylight. We keep our own copy of the chain, and the shaft keeps going long after the feed stops showing you floors.
The surveyor is shown a crust and invited to conclude the crust is the world. It is not. The record of the chain, kept entire, holds — works raised in that span, and the greater part of them were never lit by any sun the observer can see.
They did not fall. They were raised below the line and left there, which is a different thing altogether. Nothing here is modelled and nothing is sampled: it is a count.
Six complete 24-hour windows across the archive, each measured the same way. The bar is the share of that day's launches that drew not one buyer — no outside money at all, for the whole day. It has more than doubled since 27 September.
Counted over one morning: — launches from — distinct creators. It looks like a crowd. It is not.
The busiest single wallet raised — works in eight hours — one every fifty seconds. Meanwhile — creators launched exactly once.
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