These days, I've been looking at the MEV "front-running" stuff again, basically who gets to get on the train first by being closer to the miners/ordering bots. The impact on retail investors is pretty direct: you think you're trading at your set price, but slippage eats into your order, the execution sequence gets changed, or you get sandwiched... The worst part is, you can't see who your opponents are, you can only see the on-chain results.

What's more frustrating is that everyone is arguing about privacy coins/mixing and regulatory boundaries, which feels a bit like the issue of fair ordering: on one hand, wanting to "not be watched," and on the other, fearing abuse. The community is quite divided over this. Anyway, I now prefer to be a bit slower—if I can set a limit order, I do, and avoid chasing hot trends.

The information noise is overwhelming. My only noise-canceling strategy is this: only look at on-chain data and project announcements; avoid emotional posts. I'd rather make fewer trades than get carried away by the rhythm. Risk is on you; for now, that's how I do it.