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Lately, looking at options, it feels more and more like playing a copy: the buyer is buying "time to turn the tide," the seller is selling "as long as nothing goes wrong, I’ll safely collect the ticket money." The time value thing, frankly, is like draining the buyer’s health bar every day; the longer it drags, the more it hurts. As for the seller, they usually seem to be AFK collecting profits, but once the market suddenly surges, they could get hit with a one-shot.
My current lazy rule: I treat complexity as the enemy—avoid structures I don’t understand, even if it means earning less, rather than waking up in the middle of the night in shock.
Also, recently hardware wallets are all out of stock, phishing links are everywhere, and it feels like everyone’s security awareness is being forced to improve… Anyway, when doing tasks or farming airdrops, I always double-check the link sources, pause for three seconds before signing, so that “saving effort” doesn’t turn into the most expensive cost. That’s all for now.