Lately, I’ve been getting a bit too wrapped up in testnet points. They say it’s just practice, but everyone assumes it can be cashed out for money later… Once it becomes the main course, it’s really easy for your mindset to fall apart. My stop-loss is pretty “rough”: I only mess around on each chain for up to two nights—if the total cost of gas/cross-chain/small accounts exceeds 20u, I stop. Then I just wait. If a task doesn’t show any response after 15 minutes, I close the page right away and deal with it the next day, so I don’t keep refreshing and getting even more pissed off.

Also, don’t try to force that “smart money” playbook here. When you see big on-chain transfers, or any movement in an exchange’s hot and cold wallets, and then you start guessing that someone has set up an ambush in advance—I just treat it as noise. If I really want to do it, I do it according to my own budget and schedule. If the points don’t come in, then I just treat it as paying tuition—don’t imagine yourself as a mining machine.