Lately, I’ve been feeling a bit uncomfortable when I see larger slippage on the chain… To be honest, you think you're "arbitrage hunting," but it might just turn into giving away the bread in a sandwich, missing the opportunity, and feeding the fees and spreads to others first. Now I tend to glance at the pool depth and transaction distribution before placing an order, willing to go slower, since not every trade needs to be executed.

Hardware wallets are still out of stock, phishing links are everywhere, everyone’s security awareness has improved, but it’s quite ironic: what you care about is earning an extra 0.x%, while others are watching your entire wallet. I rarely click on links, and I copy addresses by hand twice—it's troublesome but reliable.

What I fear missing the most isn’t actually the opportunity, but forgetting to record the "source of income" in this note, only to realize later that the trap was written in the corner all along.