Staring at charts in the middle of the night until my eyes go unfocused, I suddenly see a link for “free airdrop”—and I jolt right away. This kind of old trick is probably a phishing site. Honestly, those “shitcoins” worth a few hundred bucks in my wallet aren’t even worth moving anymore, but that red line about seed phrases—I’ve truly never touched it. Before, a friend tried to be efficient: they took a photo of the seed phrase and saved it on their phone. Then the phone got lost, and the wallet basically got wiped to zero. That feeling is even worse than getting trapped in a position.

Seed-phrase authorization is even more annoying. Nowadays on-chain, those “one-click claim” buttons—once you tap them, you might be granting permission to a malicious contract. The most ridiculous thing I’ve seen is someone scanning a QR code and having all assets in their wallet instantly transferred out with nothing left, not even a trace. Anyway, my rule now is: if a link is from an unknown source, let your wallet “do nothing but stare” for five minutes and ask yourself—what’s falling from the sky here, a real pie or a fishhook?

Recently, the chain gaming circle has been exploding again: inflation, studio rug pulls, token prices spiraling—put simply, the economic model just can’t hold up. I played a few; at first I was pretty excited, but after not even two months, the output was less than what I put in. So I just dumped the remaining coins into the “dust” pile and called it tuition. Wallet security matters more than making more or less. The tuition I paid is enough to treat myself to a good meal at a small restaurant. That’s it for now.