Just now, I made an on-chain move myself, and the feeling of a bunch of people lining up in the mempool is too real: you think clicking is the end of it, but in reality you’re first standing at the entrance, and miners/packagers decide who is “more anxious” and take it first. The more congested it gets, the easier it is to start mindlessly refreshing and retrying—then the same transaction gets stuck and won’t move, and people end up feeling anxious too… To put it plainly, when the network is congested, what gets magnified first isn’t technology—it’s your transaction mindset.

Recently, I’ve also noticed that some regions keep tightening and then loosening taxes and compliance requirements. Once expectations for deposits and withdrawals change, the chain suddenly gets lively. Anyway, when I run into congestion now, I first check active addresses and the congestion situation—don’t charge in blindly. If you can wait, wait; otherwise, take it as a lesson for yourself. That’s it for now.