Just now I made a small on-chain transaction, stuck in the mempool waiting in line to the point where I started to doubt my life… The general process is: when you click confirm, it’s just “sending out your wish,” initially lying in a pile of pending transactions. When there’s congestion, others can add a bit more fee to jump the queue, and yours gets slowly pushed to the back, or even fails if the quote/slippage conditions change, and you still have to pay a “learning fee.” Honestly, the part before the transaction gets on-chain is the most mysterious. Recently, everyone’s been criticizing miners/validators’ income, MEV, and unfair ordering, which I can understand. I just wanted to buy a small picture, but it feels like racing against an invisible hand… I’m now trying to choose less congested times or just do less transactions. How about you?