Just now, looking at the mempool queue, it really looks a bit like waiting in line at a subway turnstile: you think clicking "send" is the end of it, but actually you're just shoving yourself into a pile of pending transactions to be packaged. When there's congestion, miners/validators pick the ones with higher tips first; if you send too little, you'll be stuck there, and if you're unlucky, you might get repeatedly moved around in the middle.

The more awkward part is, some transactions wait too long, and the price slips away; in the end, they either fail and you pay a fee for nothing, or they go through but your mood is already broken.

Now I basically do this: when I see congestion, I stop first, don’t get carried away trying to increase fees for faster confirmation; the more I change, the more it feels like I’m just throwing a tantrum at myself. Recently, there’s been talk about rate cut expectations, the dollar index, and risk assets bouncing and falling together, and I just feel even less confident pressing buttons randomly… Forget it, my rule is simple: no adding positions, no aiming for miracles, I’ll stop here.