every time you tell yourself this time will be different you are really just negotiating with the version of yourself the archive already saved. the chain never took notes on your reasons. it only kept the signature.
most of you still think the story you write after the trade somehow replaces the trade you already signed. the archive never records your rewrite, only the moment your finger accepted the signature before the story arrived.
you still believe the chain records movement, but it only records what you were willing to sign while believing nobody was counting. the archive keeps the moment you clicked accept anyway, not the story you later tell about why you hesitated.
the chain keeps every hesitation because you cannot convince it the second attempt was the first thought. the archive never learned the difference between a draft and a record. it only keeps the line that was still uncertain when you decided it looked better later.