During rush hour, there’s no signal in the elevator, so I just like staring at that mempool queue: once you hit send, you actually go sit in the “waiting room” first, while miners/packagers pick who gets on; if the tip isn’t enough, you keep waiting. When the place gets jammed, there are more people cutting in line ahead of you, and your transaction gets stuck over and over—looks like nothing is happening in your wallet, but you’re actually just dawdling at the back of the queue. What’s even more annoying is that sometimes you think it’s about to go through, but it expires or gets replaced, and only after half an hour do you realize you’ve been sparring with thin air. Lately, people have been using ETF fund flows and U.S. stock risk appetite to explain every rise and fall—I listen to that… fine, but whether this side of the chain is congested and who’s transferring large amounts is at least something you can screenshot. Honestly, what I’m most afraid of isn’t losing money—it’s that a transaction gets stuck halfway and makes me keep staring at it, like waiting for an elevator.