I was just staring at the mempool (just think of it as a waiting room where transactions line up at the door) in a daze. If the network gets congested, the transaction you send out actually does nothing in the sense that it’s just stuck there, squeezing for position with everyone else. If the fee is too low, it keeps getting put on “standby,” and sometimes your wallet will even bump the price and resend it for you. Paying a high fee also doesn’t mean you’ll get into the station immediately; there’s a whole bunch of others ahead of you who are equally impatient, and miners/validators package the ones they find most appealing first—plainly speaking, it’s competitive bid-based line-cutting. The most annoying part is thinking you’ve canceled it, but actually you’ve only shoved another “reverse transaction” into the queue to keep waiting… So I’d rather go slower now and check the congestion before I click confirm. By the way, lately there’s this whole “attention mining” setup with social mining and fan tokens—“attention mining” is what it’s called. It looks to me like you’re just throwing everyone’s attention into the mempool queue, and in the end it’s hard to say who walks away with the value. Anyway, I don’t click on unfamiliar links.