Recently, I've come across a bunch of "social mining" and "points leaderboard" schemes again, basically using your daily attention as computing power: liking, sharing, checking into groups to punch the clock, exchanging for badges or whitelist spots. It looks lively, but as an old miner, I always reflexively think about the settlement: who is paying, where the money comes from, and how it exits. Many points ultimately rely on issuing tokens to take over, or depend on new user traffic to sustain; once the studio starts competing, the rhythm is very similar to chain games—inflation keeps going, and when token prices soften, it spirals downward, leaving only the self-hypnosis of "keep grinding to break even." Anyway, I’ve set an alarm now, and if I participate, I only choose those that can directly exchange for real rights, others just as chat entertainment. That’s it.