Recently, someone asked me again whether "queue jumping" on the blockchain is considered unfair. Frankly, the thing that MEV/ordering most affects first isn't the big players, but ordinary people who just want to "swap some coins / grab a mint": the prices you see, slippage, transaction order, may have already been calculated by others beforehand. You think you're just clicking confirm, but you're actually participating in a race with opaque queuing rules.

What's more subtle is that, often, it's not as straightforward as stealing your money, but rather spreading the loss into "normal fluctuations," so in the end, everyone just blames their slow reactions or network congestion, and it's hard to clearly explain.

And now the community is still arguing over privacy coins, coin mixing, and the boundaries of compliance, arguing as if taking sides... I can understand the regulatory pressure, but I also find the all-or-nothing attitude quite annoying: on one hand, they say they want fairness and transparency, but they accept queue jumping as "market behavior"; on the other hand, they talk about privacy and freedom, but are afraid of being implicated. Forget it, just do your best to handle what you can control, and don't let emotions push you into placing orders.