Hey, testnet points are really getting ridiculously competitive right now. At first I thought it was kind of fresh—just practicing to get the hang of the interactions—but now everyone’s calculating expected returns. Even the airdrops have become “predicting your prediction.”

Lately I’ve set a stop-loss for myself: for each testnet project, I’ll cap how much time I spend and how much gas I burn to run it. Once I hit that threshold, I pull out—even if later people say, “I farmed a few ten thousand dollars.” Because, plain and simple, this is basically like a practice match. Don’t add too much drama to it, or your mindset will snap first.

Recently I’ve been looking into that whole thing with miners and MEV. Retail traders complain that ordering is unfair, but it’s the same logic— you think you can earn that little spread just by “reaction speed” or being “smart,” but their machines and strategies have already fully figured out where the profit is.

My current habit is to first get clear on what money I’m actually trying to make: is it practice experience, cognitive arbitrage, or just blindly following the crowd? Once I’ve thought it through, set a stop-loss point—hit it and leave. And yeah, even if I talk tough, my wallet is still honest.