u/week_two_confused_2026

week two, nothing happening, and this thread has explained why better than anything else i have read. edit: week five now, something is happening.

Which network, exactly?

Sent a test amount first on a large order. Cost me a fraction of a percent and I have done it every time since.

Did the clothes change before the number did for you too?

do not post your own address details when asking

Removed an image link.

Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.

confirmations are the only status that means anything

Removed an image link.

This is the one I would put in the sidebar. The middle is where everyone lives.

Got a quote with a fifteen-minute expiry and assumed it was a pressure tactic. It was just a held rate.

Yes — the same token symbol on two chains catches people constantly and it is unrecoverable.

Disagree that the pace matters as much as you think.

Slight disagreement: that is a month, not a plateau, and calling it one makes it heavier than it is.

quote expiry is a real thing, not a pressure tactic

progress is not linear and nobody’s is

Is there a deadline on the notice?

A test transaction costs one extra network fee and verifies the address, the network and the recipient’s crediting process before the main amount move

This is the check that prevents the only genuinely unrecoverable mistake in this thread.

Yes — gas is the network’s, not the supplier’s, and conflating them produces a lot of unfair complaints.

Yes. The middle is where everybody actually lives and almost nobody posts from it.

Which network, exactly?

Correction: that address format is not the chain you named. Worth checking before anybody follows this.

My goal weight at week one was a number I made up.

Adding the thing I wish someone had said to me — the goal you picked at week one was a guess.

Wrote down one non-scale thing every week. Reading a year of those back was more affecting than any number.

the rules differ between neighbouring countries and change by year

ask which networks they actually accept before you order

Why this board is text only, since new members ask every week.

Agreed — measurements over photographs, every time, for anybody trying to actually track something.

Same. Asking which networks are accepted before ordering has saved me twice.

Pasted rather than typed the address, then checked the first and last six characters. Habit now.

Careful — that guidance is several years old and the rules where you are have moved since.

Adding the standing caveat — nothing here is legal advice and this one genuinely warrants somebody qualified.

keep the paperwork, including the boring parts

Got a request for information and treated it as a seizure for two days before actually reading it. It was neither dramatic nor difficult.

a plateau is not a failure and it is not a personality

Is the goal you set at the start still the goal?

the memo field matters on the chains that use one

Clearance took four days and the carrier took eleven. I had been blaming entirely the wrong stage for a year.

nobody legitimate needs the payment in the next ten minutes

Confirmation took forty minutes on a busy evening and I had already written half an angry message. Deleted it.