Annual Review of Staking Yield Suspicion
The yield is twenty-two percent. The token is down sixty-eight percent. These are not unrelated facts.
CORRESPONDENCE
To: The Person Still Staking From: The Review Re: Annual Review of Staking Yield Suspicion Date: October 2022
This correspondence is to inform you that the annual review of your staking yield suspicion has been completed.
Findings
Someone watches a high yield become less comforting as the underlying token keeps falling. You are that person. This was not always the case. In January the yield felt like a hedge. In March it felt like compensation. In October it functions as a percentage that must now be mentally applied to a declining number before the actual situation becomes visible.
The math is not favorable.
The Checking Pattern
The check cannot change the price, yet it changes the person's mood as if an action occurred. You have checked the staking dashboard eight times today. The yield has not changed. The underlying token has continued its pattern.
Uncertainty may be converted into certainty by checking the same number again under identical conditions. This does not work. You are aware it does not work. You checked again at 3 PM.
The Shift
The shift from crypto confidence to crypto winter was not announced. Once staking yield suspicion affects a mood twice, checking or explaining it again becomes mandatory research. The research is ongoing. It has been ongoing since April.
Consequence Record
After repetition, other people begin adjusting their behavior around staking yield suspicion. Conversations about the project are shorter. Eventually staking yield suspicion acquires an unwritten enforcement system that everyone denies creating.
Recommendation
No action recommended at this time. The position is held. The yield continues. The review is complete.
Estimated Next Review
Whenever you open the app again.