When the network is congested, I imagine myself lining up in the mempool: transactions wait at the entrance first, and miners/packagers choose the more “worth it” ones to stuff into the block first. If your fee isn’t enough, then you can only keep waiting—until it times out, gets replaced, or you cancel and resend it yourself... Anyway, it’s not like clicking means it will arrive immediately.

Recently, I’ve been watching new L1/L2 projects keep issuing incentives to pull in TVL, and in the group, long-time users complain about “mining, proposing, and selling.” When congestion hits, it becomes even more obvious: everyone rushes in at the same time, the line lengthens straight away, and everyone’s mindset starts to drift too.

The reason I can stay a bit calmer is because I have a very “down-to-earth” habit: before making a transaction, I write a sentence about the “worst-case scenario” in a memo—for example, it might get stuck for half an hour, it might cost one extra fee, or slippage might turn ugly. After I write it, I decide whether to make the move now—especially never just to grab those few minutes by going into high leverage. That’s it.