I used to think that clicking confirm meant "it was on the chain," at most just a bit slower... Later I realized that during congestion, transactions are actually queued in the mempool, like packages stuck at a sorting center: if the gas fee is too low, no one pays attention; only by offering a higher fee might it get packaged, and it can even be bumped down by others offering a higher price, only to fail after waiting a long time and still lose the fee, which is pretty frustrating.

Recently, the group has been discussing stablecoin regulation, reserve audits, and various screenshots of "de-pegging," and I found that my first reaction now isn't rushing to swap tokens, but first checking the on-chain flow and the bridge's incoming and outgoing transfers to see if there's a sudden large-scale movement... In other words, the more chaotic it gets, the less you should rush to click confirm. That's all for now.