Check your own wallet’s transaction history and you’ll be shocked—many old contract approvals are still set to unlimited amounts. Back then, to save time, you just tapped confirm on cross-chain bridges and aggregators and moved on. Now that you think about it, your back goes cold. If any project goes wrong, your wallet could be drained instantly. Revoking permissions is like locking your door before bed—annoying to do once, but it keeps you safe. Recently, I’ve been looking at social mining and attention tokens; to put it plainly, user authorizations are the shovels in other people’s hands. If you don’t trust the contract permissions, mining more won’t help—you’ll just be working for someone else. I’m still hopeful: attention can indeed be mined, but the prerequisite is that you have to be alive on the day the mining is finished.