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These days, I've been earning testnet points again, and the more I do it, the more I feel that the mindset is quite dangerous: originally just for practice, but then I start defaulting to "this round must have an airdrop," and once expectations set in, my actions become more and more aggressive. My stop-loss is simple and straightforward: when on-chain turnover rate heats up, interaction fees start to look off, and the group's mood clearly becomes overly excited, I stop for a day first—don't push too hard. To put it plainly, with points, the biggest risk is treating time as principal and hope as profit.
Recently, the "compound yield" from staking/sharing safety protocols has also been criticized as a copycat scheme. I can understand that; the bigger the narrative, the easier it is to forget where the exit button is. Anyway, I only recognize a take-profit line: take what you can, treat the rest as practice, and don't turn practicing into an obsession. I'm going to get to work.