Lately, I've been watching the mempool so closely that I'm starting to doubt myself: you think you're "watching the chain," but most of the time you're just looking at a version relayed to you by some RPC or indexer, which may have delays or omissions. Especially with L2s, it's even more obvious—one transaction I see still pending on my end, but a friend already says it's "successful"... Basically, what you're refreshing is a cache, not the block itself.
That social mining concept of "attention is mining" also feels similar: you think you're getting information instantly, but you're actually b
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