Thoughts triggered by zkSync airdrop

Source: Daoshuo Blockchain

These two days, I read about a Twitter user's experience of playing with zkSync.

This user has spent a lot of time, energy and financial resources to conduct various transactions on zkSync over the years. During this period, the user's dedication and focus have been supported by his wife. Even in the most difficult times, his wife has always believed in him.

However, the result of this effort was nothing. This was undoubtedly like a bolt from the blue, breaking the psychological defenses of the user.

In the comments to this speech, the user also attached his own experience--------in order to obtain the maximum benefit, he even resigned to do this wholeheartedly.

The experience of this user and some netizens who followed the comments made people feel mixed emotions.

Today, I mentioned this experience to you more because I want to share with you several mistakes that I think are very serious in the whole incident. I hope that our readers can avoid this pit in the future and not let similar tragedies happen again.

When doing anything, the big strategy must be right first, and then the details can be carved. If the big strategy is right, the details are not so accurate, at most it will be slow and inefficient; but if the big strategy is not right, no matter how well the details are carved, it will be futile.

In this case, I think a very serious mistake made by the main culprit is that the big strategy is wrong.

The development of the game of picking up wool has long been different from the once-fair model. The current policy of picking up wool by the project party is very strict, the purpose is to prevent the airdrop of tokens to speculators who have no loyalty to the project.

Under this premise, the project party usually has two practices:

One is to clearly announce the airdrop standard, such as Blast, EigenLayer and other projects-------whoever has more mortgaged assets will get more airdrops.

The second is not to clearly announce the airdrop standard, always using specious words to whet the appetite of the entire community. Let everyone see hope, but no clear results.

For the first type, we know at first glance that it is a game that is more about money. For this type of game, everyone should do their best and participate appropriately. The final airdrop will be there or not.

In this type of game, there will not be too many injured retail investors, because retail investors know that it is not in their favor as soon as they see the rules, and retail investors who are a little more rational will not bet heavily on this type of game. If you don't bet heavily, you won't have "the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment."

The second type is a game of gambling. Because it has no clear rules, but has a "big pie" that looks "huge", it is easy to create hallucinations.

In this way of playing, the project party has full control of the initiative, and the participants have no bargaining power. However, this type of game is most likely to make participants lose their minds and get hurt. The above case is a tragedy caused by this type of game.

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But in fact, if we block our inner greed and think about it calmly, it should not be difficult to find that in this game with unclear rules, questionable fairness and transparency, if participants can still make a profit, it is purely luck.

Since it is luck, we should not bet our entire fortune and everything we have on gambling and fighting.

So the strategy of placing heavy bets and betting on this game is fundamentally wrong.

The rational approach is as I once wrote in the article: just participate appropriately when time, energy and financial resources allow.

If we go a step further, we will actually find that there is a bigger problem in the hearts of these participants: that is, the demon of "getting rich overnight" lingering in their minds.

Whether it is the "all-out" of the pusher or the "full-time operation" of the follower, all of them are actions triggered by this demon.

This demon has eroded 99.9999999% of people in the crypto ecosystem.

Because I missed Bitcoin, I hope to get rich overnight by playing all-in-one Shanzhai.

Because I missed Ethereum, I hope to get rich overnight by playing all-in-one Ethereum killers.

Because I missed Bitcoin and Ethereum, I hope to get rich overnight by playing all-in-one MEME.

Because I missed ORDI, I hope to get rich overnight by playing all-in-one other inscriptions.

Because I missed all the coins, I hope to get rich overnight by playing all-in-one.

......

Among the hopes of getting rich overnight, there are of course successful people, but we have to think carefully about how big this proportion is?

Even if there are, why is it you or me?

So for these speculative games, participating with a calm and casual attitude is the way suitable for retail investors in my opinion.