The third time my testnet points situation was messing with my mindset… At first it was clearly just practice, but after grinding for a while, I started calculating “what I could exchange for if it works out,” and that’s how people easily get carried away.

My stop-loss is simple and straightforward right now: set yourself a “practice budget,” such as a maximum of X minutes of messing around per day and a maximum of X in transaction fees/cross-chain transfers. If I go over, I stop—better to miss out than to stay up late and hard-grind. Another rule is to only touch the interactions I can understand. The more a path looks like “stuffing together actions just to farm points,” the less I do it—because those are the ones most likely to cause weird problems.

Recently, everyone’s been guessing whether the ecosystem will migrate after that main public chain upgrade, but I actually want to slow down instead. Whether it migrates or not doesn’t matter for now—I’ll first sort out wallet security and go over my operation records… Plainly put, once expectations start to grow, you need rules to pull them back down a bit.