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Lately, social mining, points, badges, and such have become popular again.
I also get the itch to click around a bit, but honestly, the most expensive thing isn't gas, it's time.
Every day, I grind tasks, share posts, check in for my "identity," and in the end, I realize I'm just doing operations for the project, and I’ve also exposed my wallet path...
It's a bit not worth it.
And on-chain, the order of who comes first and who comes later has always been criticized as unfair.
Miner/validator + MEV is such a lucrative game; retail investors can only get scraps.
The more competitive the points system gets, the easier it is to push people into meaningless interactions, even providing material for traps or sandwich attacks.
I now just treat it as occasional product testing, setting a limit: money I can afford to spend + time I can afford to spend, and if I go over, I stop.
What about you?