Recently browsing on-chain transactions, seeing a lot of sandwich attacks and arbitrage, I’ve become a bit more calm: you think you’ve found a “chance,” but often you’re actually paying others for delay fees + transaction fees. To put it plainly, you’re serving your own soup on the table for others to add ingredients... Now I tend to check the slippage and transaction path more before placing an order, especially for cross-chain bridges, where the fees stack up to be quite scary. Social mining and fan tokens are also somewhat similar — can attention really be mined? Maybe, but in the end, what’s mined might be the platform and market maker’s profits, while retail investors are mostly contributing traffic. As for trusting data or intuition, I trust data a bit more; at least it will tell me “how much I’ve actually paid.”