Last night I couldn’t sleep again, staring at the market, and I got impatient and placed a trade, which ended up stuck in the mempool waiting in line until I lost my patience... You think clicking confirm is the end, but actually you're just throwing yourself into the "who's willing to pay more gets to go first" queue. When congestion hits, a bunch of people cut in line ahead, and your transaction is like being pulled by the neck and shaken: either wait patiently, add some Gas and admit defeat, or just fail at the end and have a false alarm.

The most annoying part is, the price has already moved, and you're still watching that pending circle spin, with your stop-loss hanging in midair.
By the way, I’ve been thinking about those recent social mining and fan token schemes, where attention is like mining... Basically, it’s also like competing for a spot in the mempool—who shouts the loudest gets to be at the front. For someone like me, anxiously refreshing in the middle of the night, my attention contribution is pretty steady, but I don’t know about the gains. Anyway, I just need to keep my hands steady first.