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Lately, earning testnet points has been a bit frustrating. It was originally just to practice, but then a bunch of people started calculating "how much I can exchange with this," and the mindset immediately turned sour. My stop-loss is pretty simple: once I realize I'm leveraging myself just to earn points (multiple accounts, staying up late to do tasks, watching Gas like watching K-line charts), I take a two-day break, cut the task list in half, and prefer to have less rather than turn myself into a workhorse. (Yes, I often get carried away and then pretend to be rational.)
Looking again at staking, sharing security, and so on—being criticized as "nested" I can understand. Honestly, everyone is betting on the same safety and liquidity not to collapse. The same goes for points; don’t treat "possibly" as "definitely." I only recognize one thing: whether the time/cost invested can be accepted as zero. If yes, play; if not, pretend I didn’t see it. That’s it for now.