I recently muted the group, and it’s much quieter now. Before, I kept staring at posts about those cross-chain bridges and IBC message passing— the more I looked, the more I felt like an idiot. Plainly speaking, cross-chain requires trusting too many things: the nodes need to be reliable, relayers can’t cause trouble, and even the oracle has to be trustworthy… In short, every extra layer of components is another potential place to get you. Better to just put your assets on a single chain, stake them, and spend each day checking the yield to kill time.

Recently I’ve also been seeing people complain about on-chain data tools— that they’re laggy and prone to misleading people. But I think, in many cases, the data is no better than just waiting a couple more days and checking yourself. Anyway, I’m the kind of person who’s afraid of hassle. Rather than researching all this, I’d rather lie flat and do nothing. The group is muted, and the world is peaceful.