Proof & Realness

Legend: [D] demonstrated · [A] anticipated · [T] target.

[A] "the number of people who turn up at the agm" and "all the various metrics to do with the success of an agm."
[A] "the lottery success."
[A] "the consensus around all members"; the pair say "it's pretty easy to gauge general consensus in these sorts of things" (asserted, not shown).
[T] "42 venues just say we're organizing something for that date."
[T] "giving money to people and not feeling like this is taking away from ourselves" (the non-extractive test).
[T] aiming for "six" 42k prizes (one guaranteed), with "42 would be ambitious"; underwritten by "42 times 42 minimal patron fish" (model asserted as "very reasonable," unverified within the transcript).
[A] foundation pledges (Ethereum, Solana) as "a peer pressure moment" (named but not confirmed).
[D] distributing "towels to all 42 venues" as "what happens in the physical way" (the ritual is described as a planned doing, not yet evidenced).

Headline metric. 42 venues confirming they are organising something for the date.