I've been exploring options again over the past two weeks, and the more I look at it, the more I feel: this thing called time value is basically just eating away at the buyer's patience. You're buying "possibility," and even if you do nothing every day, it quietly shrinks; the seller is like running a small stall, waiting for you to hand over the time... Of course, during big volatility, buyers can also break even in one shot, but the problem is that most of the time, the market just loves to pretend to be dead.

By the way, it reminds me of recent social mining and fan tokens, which talk about "attention as mining." Honestly, it’s quite similar to buyers: you trade time for an uncertain explosive event; platforms or project teams are more like sellers, the longer the time, the more stable. Anyway, as someone who picks up the leftovers, I’d rather slowly claim my rewards than be worn down by the passage of time and lose my mindset every day.