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These days, I see people arguing about "data availability / ordering / finality," with a bunch of nouns that just give me a headache. To put it simply, I focus on one main point: can everyone see this transaction, in what order will it be included, and will it ultimately fail? Data availability is like "whether the ledger is openly placed on the table," ordering is like "who gets served first or last," and finality is whether "it can still be retracted by the server after being served."
Actually, I can also understand retail investors complaining about validators' income and MEV... You think it's a queue, but it feels more like being cut in line. Anyway, when I look at the chain myself, I only watch two things: whether the packing order during the same time period keeps changing, and whether the probability of rollback after confirmation has increased. If it has, I’ll hold back and not bother too much, as the fog gets thicker.