Last night, I got stuck in the mempool queue for the third time, which reminded me of the scene back then when I tried to sneak through and got caught... You think clicking confirm is the end, but actually you're just sending your transaction into a "queue message." During congestion, miners/packagers first pick the transactions with higher tips, and if your tip is low, it just stays hanging there. The longer it stays, the more the price changes, and it still hasn't been confirmed on the chain; what's more embarrassing is watching others' transactions get confirmed one by one, while yours feels like waiting for a bus, and when it finally arrives, you realize you're going the wrong way.

Recently, the fee rates are extremely high again, and in the group, people are arguing whether to reverse the transaction or keep squeezing the bubble. I, for one, am not in a hurry anymore. If I really need to act, I’d rather do less, offer a reasonable tip, or just cancel and redo. Otherwise, that feeling of "thinking you're executing, but actually being executed by the market" is all too familiar.