Recently, I’ve been earning testnet points to the point it feels like doing homework.

It was originally just practice, but the more I earned, the more I started calculating “How much should this wave be worth…”
When I get excited, I tend to treat time as capital, and I get deeper and deeper into it.
My stop-loss is pretty basic now: I set a limit for “how late I’ll tinker,” “how many accounts I’ll open,” and “how much Gas I’ll spend,” and when I reach that, I turn off the computer, even if the group is still shouting “Just one more round, and it’s almost there.”
Otherwise, it’s not losing money in the end, but losing my mindset.

During the time when a certain mainstream public chain was about to upgrade, everyone was guessing whether the ecosystem would migrate.
I also worried about it all night, but then I thought: testnets are things I can’t control whether they migrate or not, so don’t treat uncertainty as guaranteed profit to bet on.

What I’ve learned isn’t skills, but: once I start expecting returns, I should treat “practice” as trading, and prepare an exit button in advance.