My MEV story - one of opportunity, luck, incompetence, competition, discovery and euphoria. This time last year, my best friend in the whole world asked me if I was interested in a 'Solidity project'. He had been following a lending protocol for some time, and thought there was an edge in liquidating their insolvent positions. I had been learning about the EVM and mempool activity previously, and was working in corporate land as an optimisation specialist, but the idea of processing...