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Great exploration of the friction layer in automated commerce, Matt. The massive gap here isn't just consumer psychology—it's how the processing plumbing handles non-human transaction cadences.

I've been mapping these micro-temporal volume shifts on my Substack to see how merchant terminals manage "dead air" capacity gaps versus sudden velocity waves. It turns out tracking that velocity metadata pipeline is a massive leading indicator for merchant portfolio churn before it shows up in macro financial data.

I open-sourced the data science model behind it (time-series-velocity-baseline) in a piece called "The Velocity Multiplier"—would love your perspective on how the physical network layer handles these shifting commerce paradigms!