Testnet points were always just a way to practice. You’d claim them and run—didn’t even bother to write bug reports. But now it’s different. Project teams have all gotten smarter, dangling points like chips to keep you hooked. The community calculates every day: “What rank am I in?” “Is it worth grinding for?”

To be honest, I got pulled in too. I was still clicking that lousy faucet at 3 AM. Later I figured it out and set a hard stop-loss: at most three days on a single project—if the points don’t put you in the first tier, you withdraw. Absolutely no adding on. Basically, a testnet is a testnet. The mainnet is where real money is. Don’t train yourself into free QA.

Recently, phishing links have been going wild. Before I do any interaction, I make sure to go through a hardware wallet confirmation first, even if it’s currently out of stock and hard to get everywhere… (Anyway, my old one still works, so I’ll stick with it for now.)

That’s it for now—go ahead and enjoy “scraping some fur,” but you’ve got to keep your life.