Recently, I've been looking into MEV/ordering issues again. Basically, on the blockchain, the order of "who goes first and who goes after" is not a given. You might think you're lining up to check out, but someone slips a tip to the cashier and cuts in front of you, buying the cheaper bottle of water, and even raising the price a bit... The biggest impact isn't actually the person cutting in line, but the chain of people following the original plan: slippage, transaction price, liquidation order—all quietly changed.

I'm becoming more conservative now, preferring limit orders whenever possible, even if it means slower transactions. The social mining/fan token approach—"attention is mining"—sounds like another form of cutting in line: those with louder voices get the rewards first, and the rest just serve as traffic padding. Anyway, I don't really believe fairness happens automatically; I can only try to avoid standing in the most vulnerable positions.