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Lately, watching options for a long time has become a bit amusing: buyers are like buying tickets, paying the time value upfront, and if the market doesn’t move, it gets eaten away little by little; sellers are more like running a small shop, collecting "rent" every day, but when a storm really hits, it can be quite scary. To put it simply, who is the time value mainly eating? Most of the time, it’s nibbling on the buyer’s patience, while also testing the seller’s courage and position management.
By the way, looking at social mining and fan tokens, it feels like using attention as fuel— the louder the noise, the more it resembles “mining,” but in the end, what you might mine is just fatigue… My own noise reduction trick is simple: scroll less on the timeline, focus more on real on-chain data and the few relevant to my holdings, and treat the rest as background noise.