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These days, there's been more arguing over secondary market royalties, basically: everyone wants creators to keep earning money, but transactions naturally don't want to pay an extra dime. The more I argue, the more I want to "pause" for a moment, stop rushing to pick sides, and take a look at the real flow on the chain: royalties are not a moral issue, but an incentive design issue. If the design isn't smooth, it ultimately leads to bypassing, forks, mutual blacklisting—everyone gets exhausted.
With social mining, fan tokens, and the "attention is mining" approach, I also have doubts whether it's a false proposition... Attention can be easily faked or bought, and in the end, it becomes about who can operate better rather than who can create better. Anyway, I'm going to stop chasing hot topics for now, prefer to slow down and see if there's a simpler way: tie rewards more closely to "sustained contribution," rather than relying on every transfer to collect a toll. That's all for now.