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These days, I've come across a bunch of "social mining" and "fan token" discussions, claiming that attention is equivalent to mining. Just hearing that makes my stomach tighten... It feels more like they're just rephrasing the time you spend staring at the screen and selling it back to you. When hot topics rotate quickly, people tend to get caught up chasing after them, but in the end, it's really just repeatedly feeding liquidity to those who entered earlier.
I've now set a simple rule for myself: first, I won't look at KOL screenshots and profit stories; instead, I check whether the on-chain prices are experiencing strange delays or if trades are being driven by a few large orders. If the oracle sources are scarce or manipulable, no matter how hot it gets, I’ll pretend I didn’t see it. To put it plainly, hot topics will always exist, but the feeling of being cut is pretty much the same... That’s it for now. My eyes are a bit sore, so I’ll go relax.