Every time the blockchain gets congested, I can't help but take a look at the mempool, that "queue hall" feeling is quite real: you click send, and you're just slipping a small note into the crowd, miners/packagers choose who gets on first, basically based on whether your tip is enough or if your transaction will get stuck behind a bunch of others. So there’s that awkward situation: either wait for a long time with no movement, or you increase the fee to replace it, and the previous transaction is still hanging around, which wears down your patience. The economic collapse of blockchain games is even more obvious, with inflation skyrocketing and studios spamming transactions, all on-chain operations become run on panic, queues burst, and finally the coin price spirals downward, everyone wants to be the first to run.

What I fear most is not missing an opportunity, but the helpless feeling of wanting to leave but being stuck in the queue, unable to move. Anyway, I’m still testing with low positions; when congestion happens, I hold back, survive first and then talk.