You can't proclaim a scripting VM for block chains works, if you don't specify the mining and game theory for the block chain.
The entire point I am making is the VM isn't independent of the mining and game theory for the block chain.
It is running on two entirely different kinds of block chains - if you are really interested to study them go ahead but AT is orthogonal to that (it is block chain agnostic).
I didn't write 'orthogonal'. I wrote 'independent'. I hope you understand the distinction?