Me, sweating under a block that is not mine Me at 150 milliseconds, eyes still catching up
00.00 sto finality
keep holding
0Blocks final
—Best climb
0Sweat, ml

Hold the button and I start climbing. Let go and I slide back down. That is how consensus felt.

I carry every Solana block up the mountain. Today I got 85 times faster.

A block is not final until somebody drags it to the summit, and that somebody has always been me. Under TowerBFT the climb took 12.8 seconds per block, and my foot remembers every one of them.

Then Alpenglow went live on mainnet and the same climb now takes 150 milliseconds. I did not train for this. My eyes are still at the bottom of the hill.