Last night, I watched that kind of "cutting in line" transaction on the chain for a long time, and the more I watched, the more I felt that MEV, to put it simply, isn't about who is smarter, but about who holds the sorting power. Ordinary people are most affected not by "earning a little less," but by slippage, uncertain transactions, and inexplicably paying more gas, with an experience like being pushed into line when buying tickets.

I once tried to do a small swap, and saw the same path being repeatedly snatched back and forth in the mempool, with the price jumping up and down, and suddenly I couldn't understand it anymore... I really stopped, forget it, if I don't understand, I won't move for now. Later, I thought about it and found it quite reasonable: in a place where sorting is opaque, impulsive orders are the biggest cost.

Recently, there have been a bunch of social mining and fan token hype claiming "attention is mining," but the on-chain sorting issue instead reminds me: attention can really be mined away, but what’s mined away isn’t your tokens, it’s your patience and judgment. As for fairer sorting / better L2 rules, I remain optimistic; solutions will come gradually.