confirmations — 20 things I got wrong before I got it right
confirmations — 20 things I got wrong before I got it right. I have gone back and forth on this for months.
Some chains require a memo or destination tag to route funds to the right account. Omitting it on those chains is one of the more common ways payments go astray.
A token symbol identifies an asset, not a network. The same symbol commonly exists on several chains with incompatible address formats, and sending across that boundary is generally unrecoverable.
Confirmations are the count of blocks built on top of the one containing your transaction. Until there are some, the transaction is not settled in any meaningful sense.
If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Retitled from an accusation to a description while the confirmations catch up.
the supplier cannot reverse it and neither can you
network and address, checked twice, before anything else
Was there a memo or tag requirement on that chain?
Was there a memo or tag requirement on that chain?
Agreed — and the hash is the receipt. Nothing else is.
How many confirmations does it show?
How many confirmations does it show?
reflux_report is right about confirmations. "Sent" is not a status.
Sent to the right address on the wrong chain years ago. Nothing to be done. That is the lesson I paid for.
Rate quotes expire because the underlying rate moves. A short expiry is ordinary; urgency about your decision is a separate signal and should be read separately.
Rate quotes expire because the underlying rate moves.
This is the check that prevents the only genuinely unrecoverable mistake in this thread.
Confirmation took forty minutes on a busy evening and I had already written half an angry message. Deleted it.
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