Honestly, after many people click “Confirm,” they think the transaction is already on its way—but in reality, it’s more like lining up in the mempool first… Once there’s traffic, it starts to feel like mysticism: the ones with low gas get left waiting, while others cut the line and get posted on-chain first. Meanwhile, your transaction keeps stuck there in “pending,” looking like it’s frozen—but actually, it’s waiting for miners/validators to pick the order. What’s even more annoying is that the more you’re in a hurry, the more likely you are to randomly raise the price, adjust the nonce, and end up messing yourself up with a whole round of operations.

Lately, people have been watching staking unlocks and the token unlock calendar, right? Once that kind of anxiety about “will there be a dump?” kicks in, as the chain gets congested, the mempool becomes even more like an emotion amplifier: everyone races to send transactions, cancels, resends, and the line gets longer and longer. I’m not sure whether that counts as empiricism, but when the network is congested, I’d rather go slower, make fewer moves, and not turn my transaction into a series. That’s it for now.