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Lately, I've been feeling a bit guilty about grinding for testnet points... It was originally just practice, but then a bunch of people started calculating "how much it's worth," and my mind automatically started treating it as future earnings. Honestly, the most important stop-loss to set at this point isn't the coin price, but time and emotions: spend no more than X minutes a day, stop when Gas/ cross-chain costs reach a certain point, and if I start getting too excited after two consecutive days, just take a break.
And also, some news about taxes or compliance tightening and loosening is the easiest way to make people’s expectations about deposits and withdrawals fluctuate, making their hands even less obedient... I now just see myself as making a backup: it's fine to keep an extra path, but don’t put all your energy into that one backup that "might happen." Anyway, taking it slow won't kill me, rushing recklessly is the most expensive.