Last night, I got itchy and sent a small transaction again, but it got stuck in the mempool queue, watching anxiously... Basically, just because you click send doesn't mean it gets on the chain immediately. Miners/validators first pick the ones that pay more. If you bid low, you can only wait at the end of the line, and the more congested it gets, the more it feels like waiting for takeout. The longer you wait, the more you want to increase your bid, and eventually your emotions explode first.
I used to be quite stubborn, always saying "I only look at the chain," and when I saw a long pending
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