I tried once, bringing a completely new friend to check out a project promoting “social mining + fan tokens.” The marketing copy was extravagant, but the two of us verified credibility using the dumbest method: first, look at GitHub—whether there are people working steadily over the long run, or whether it’s just a burst of commits pasted together. Then, find the audit report—not whether it merely says “audit passed,” but whether it lists any high-risk issues, whether there’s a record of fixes, whether those issues were actually fixed, or whether it just says “known risks—proceed at your own risk.” Finally, check the upgrade permissions: can the contract be changed freely? For multi-sig, how many people have authority—does it have a truly decentralized distribution, or is it concentrated? And is there a time lock? To put it plainly, I don’t know whether “mining attention” is even real, but with permissions that aren’t transparent and an “upgrade changes the code with one click” setup—I’m not getting in.