Lately I’ve kept thinking about a word: stop.

Like the kind of stop you need when you should stop what you’re doing, stop and look, or stop refreshing. Now “scooping” rewards really feels more and more like work: you open the task platform, and it’s all daily check-ins, doing tasks, and accumulating points. You also have to worry about witch-scouting checks, the rules for points-boosting changing again, and then a big cleanup coming in a while. Sometimes I really feel that this isn’t “exploring an ecosystem” at all. It’s clearly finding yourself an unpaid side job—you still have to spend your time, rack up gas, and you might even fall into a trap.

Yesterday I saw a post about a mainstream blockchain being paused for maintenance, and the comments were full of people guessing whether ecosystem projects would take the opportunity to migrate. Honestly, I’m impressed. Even when the chain itself goes down, it turns into a conference for discussing opportunities. But to be real, I think at times like this, stopping is actually a good thing. Don’t rush to grind tasks—pause and first look at what you’re doing, and whether you’re being pulled around by the platform’s scoring system again.

Anyway, I’m planning to cool off lately. I’ll stop those scripts I absolutely have to watch for a bit, regain some health, and then we’ll talk. I also need to shut the miner light off for a while—otherwise the light is too bright and you can’t see clearly what’s in the hole. In any case, with airdrops, this stuff can’t be rushed.