I was just gathering node data when it suddenly occurred to me—what you see as “on-chain” might already be delayed by half an hour. A lot of friends think that opening a browser is real-time, but in reality, it’s delayed layer by layer: caching, RPC load, indexing delays—before you know it, it’s already “past tense.” Especially recently, those MEV folks have been snatching block ordering, and the retail crowd’s complaints are pretty on point. But honestly, the transaction order you see might just be a “mirror reflection” that someone wants you to see. Yesterday my mom asked me, “So the on-chain data you look at—isn’t it just like checking a weather forecast, where it can say it’ll rain and then it rains, and it can say it’ll be sunny and then it’s sunny?” I told her, Mom, you got it.