Lately, doing tasks on a platform has gotten a bit maddening. Earning small rewards was originally just meant to be convenient (“just do it when you’re already at it”), but now it feels like clocking in for work: signing in at the same time for several consecutive days, posting, interacting, uploading screenshots, and then finally checking a score—like a performance review. Even more ridiculous is the whole “witch” situation: they slice people off with a one-size-fits-all decision. If your routing takes a slightly odd route, or if the same batch of addresses uses similar paths, you’re ruled “suspicious.” To be blunt, I’m trying to catch bad transactions, but I end up being treated like the bad guy—that’s pretty ironic… But then again, I can understand it. The project is afraid of getting exploited and “ripped open,” so they can only keep tightening the rules until they start to resemble HR policies. In the end, everyone learns how to “perform like a normal user.”

Also, I happened to see in the group that people are arguing again about the compliance boundary for privacy coins/mixers. Some think it’s legitimate privacy; others think it’s just inviting trouble. I’m stuck in the middle: wanting privacy but also wanting a high score—hard to have both. Anyway, for now I’d rather do fewer tasks than spend every day creating a pile of “explainability workload” for myself.