While monitoring on-chain data today, I suddenly thought of something: MEV—plainly put, it’s “cutting in line.” You work hard to place your order, but someone “smells” it in the mempool and executes first. You don’t even get time to react. It’s pretty surreal: on-chain is supposed to be fair, yet the “ordering” itself is a capital game. Sometimes I think those whales might not realize they’re just being used as prey by arbitrageurs—they think they’re trading, but really they’re feeding bots. Anyway, I’m not really able to accept this kind of rule that operates “outside the rules.” But if you say you want to completely ban it, that also doesn’t seem realistic, because every ecosystem has shadow activities. Forget it—let’s just look at it for now.

As for that recent social mining and fan token trend, I can’t shake the feeling that it has a “attention equals mining” vibe. But the more I chew on it, the more it feels like a false proposition. You say turning attention into money sounds easy, but once the crowd’s flow fades, where do the rest of the people go? It still feels a lot like taking something we discussed earlier, changing the packaging, and reposting it. In any case, I can’t be bothered to dig deeper—who really cares about what, right? It’s not like I’m the one who has to be understood.