[Explainer] confirmations, memos, and the three ways to lose money by typo
confirmations, memos, and the three ways to lose money by typo. If you already knew this, the post is not for you and you can scroll on. Got a quote with a fifteen-minute expiry and assumed it was a pressure tactic. It was just a held rate. Sent to the right address on the wrong chain years ago. Nothing to be done.…
Cosigning on keeping the hash. It is the only receipt in existence and people screenshot their balance instead.
Did the address you sent to match the one you were given, character for character?
quote expiry is a real thing, not a pressure tactic
Yes — gas is the network’s, not the supplier’s, and conflating them produces a lot of unfair complaints.
quote expiry is a real thing, not a pressure tactic
Disagreeing here: that is a network fee at a busy hour and it is not the supplier’s doing.
match the address character by character, or paste and verify
The transaction hash is the canonical receipt: it is public, verifiable by either party, and it is what a support query should quote.
match the address character by character, or paste and verify
This is the check that prevents the only genuinely unrecoverable mistake in this thread.