unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about crypto is guesswork
Something I keep coming back to: unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about crypto is guesswork. Network fees are set by chain congestion at the time of sending. They are paid to the network, not to the recipient, and they vary by hour as well as by chain. A test transaction costs one extra network fee and…
Push back: an unconfirmed transaction is not a missing payment. Wait for confirmations before escalating.
Push back: an unconfirmed transaction is not a missing payment.
Disagreeing here: that is a network fee at a busy hour and it is not the supplier’s doing.
Agreed. Network first, address second, amount third, and in that order every time.
This. A test transaction on a large order costs a fraction of the fee and removes the whole class of risk.
Sent to the right address on the wrong chain years ago. Nothing to be done. That is the lesson I paid for.
Yes — gas is the network’s, not the supplier’s, and conflating them produces a lot of unfair complaints.
the same token exists on several chains and they are not interchangeable
Nearly sent on the wrong network. The token symbol was identical and the address format was the only clue.