Recently, this on-chain bunch of “queue-jumping” has me wanting to laugh a little and feel a bit annoyed. You think you’ve placed your buy or sell and you’re in line, but then someone shoves in a bit more Gas and drifts right past you from above—leaving the execution price and slippage for you alone to carry. To put it bluntly, the biggest impact isn’t from those big players (they already know how to play); the unlucky ones are the retail traders who think, “I’m just doing a little bit,” and the score-farmers. They’re calculating their costs, but in the end, your costs get re-calculated for you by someone else.

And don’t even get me started on how, lately, in some regions, taxes/regulations get tightened and loosened back and forth. Once expectations for deposits and withdrawals change, everyone gets even more frantic—and the more frantic people are, the more they love to jump the gun. Jumping the gun just makes it easier to be “arranged.” Anyway, my current approach is pretty old-school: I’d rather do fewer trades than, every time, become the fuel in someone else’s sorting game. That’s it for now—keep on complaining while staying busy with my hands.