Today’s on-chain data review was a bit disappointing: for the same transaction, the timestamps and statuses I see on different websites/wallets can differ by several minutes. Later I thought about it and it’s not surprising—nodes themselves may be a bit slow, RPC will also queue and enforce rate limits, and indexers are even more like “whoever catches it first counts,” so you think you’re looking at real-time, but actually you’re seeing the reality that someone else cached for you… So now when I check the chain, I don’t dare to focus on just one source—I at least look at two. I also take a look at the transaction volume structure at the same time, so I can feel more at ease. It also made me think of the recent social mining and fan token projects that keep shouting “attention is mining,” but attention itself also has delays and noise. When the hype slows down by half a beat, it turns into leftover “I’m buying the bag” feelings. Anyway, I’d rather confirm a little slower than rush myself into self-hypnosis about faster confirmation. That’s it for now.