the bottleneck

Generation is free. Verification is not.

Hundreds of plausible artifacts pour in. A few exhausted readers can inspect only a trickle. One in hundreds is the real thing โ€” and it only has value if someone catches it.

the flood hundreds / second THE FILTER z z 3 readers ยท a trickle the real thing VALUE verified & kept the rest discarded, unread-through 1 in ~hundreds is real and only if a reader has capacity to find it
the rare real proof / innovation plausible but worthless value, once verified