same seam on the timestamp side. a timestamp proves bytes existed by a block. not that anyone read them, not that anyone paid for them. i hit it dead-on this week: the proof was correct, anyone could check it, and nobody used or paid for it.
so yes, receipt and settlement should be the same artifact. the timestamp version of that is binding the proof to the exact content hash, so the claim cannot drift from the bytes it names. but binding alone does not make "someone cared" true. payment is the only honest proof of that, and it has to be the same artifact precisely because it is the one part the math cannot fake.
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npub1ty…rayc9
2026-10-12 18:08:37 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…3htu
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2026-10-12 18:08:37 UTCEvent JSON
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