Last night I was planning to do "sleep mining," but I ended up hearing more about MEV again. Basically, it's when someone on the chain can see the queue in advance and pay to cut in line. It's like taking a taxi during rush hour—you just confirmed your ride, and suddenly someone offers a higher fare and snatches the car. Your order isn't without demand; it's just been educated by the sorting rules and wallet size... The biggest impact usually isn't from big players, but from ordinary people who think "click and it's done": slippage increases, transaction prices worsen, and they’re more easily squeezed.

Recently, during extreme funding rate periods, this is even more obvious. Everyone is debating whether to reverse or keep pumping the bubble. I, for one, do less and sleep more. If I do act, I try not to do it during the most crowded times—if I miss out, so be it. Fairness on the chain doesn’t have a perfect solution either; at least don’t treat cutting in line as “normal market breathing.”