Recently, the group has been talking about block builders and bundles again—like if you don’t understand them, you can’t trade… I think retail investors only need to know one thing: that they can be front-run / sandwiched to skim profit. To put it simply, you don’t need to memorize an MEV encyclopedia. Just remember this: on-chain execution isn’t based on the order you click the buttons. Other people can package your transaction and insert yours before or after—especially if you hang those obvious momentum-chasing/stop-yourself-from-losing “buy high, sell low” orders. That’s basically shouting, “Come eat me.”

My bottom line is: if you can use a limit order, don’t use a market order; don’t set slippage to something too ridiculous. If you don’t understand a contract, don’t force your way in. And if you see a bunch of back-and-forth activity on-chain involving the same address, treat it as a show staged for you. As for the whole thing about adding taxes and tightening compliance—once people’s expectations for deposits and withdrawals change, they’re more likely to get impatient. The more impatient they get, the easier it is for them to end up in someone else’s bundle… Anyway, I’m going to slow down first.

Is it still intuition versus data? I trust the data a bit more, because intuition is often just a hallucination caused by not sleeping well last night.