You need a Metamask.io wallet downloaded on your computer, before you can do anything else.
The quicker you start actually using the technology, the quicker you will understand. Its kind of like high school algebra.... The teacher can talk about it all day long. At some point, you gotta use your #2 Pencil, some paper, a calculator, and a book....
You can do it
I don't know. I accidentally sent ethereum to my Coinbase Celo address.. Celo is ERC 20.. So it should work right? Nope.. lol I once also wanted to send $10 in ethereum to a web hosting site. Somehow during the transaction I must have pressed "send max" because I had zero balance left and $95 went to the sender. Thank God I only had $100 in my wallet.
I use Bitmart a lot when I want BTC to HEX. never had a problem. (recent hack excluded but i was not affected) 1000 hex minimum withdraw and about 20 -30$ withdraw fee in HEX (changes with gas I believe). could be worse. still cheaper than eth fees.
starting to look at ChangeNow.io to go from CashApp BTC to mm wallet. better rate than SimpleSwap when I did it the other day.
You'd probably lose about $100 in the conversion rate. The methods I mentioned are just the cheapest and slowest with the least fees.
1 ALGO == $1.48
1 HEX == $.227
1,000 ALGO = $1,480
1,000 ALGO on changenow.io == ~6,137 HEX
6137 HEX == $1,393
And then you have to still move it to your metamask, and then it will still cost ETH gas fees to stake.
Hey folks, free software nerd here. One cool tool in this space that I think people would be interested in is Peertube -- basically a free/open thing designed to replace youtube with volunteer hubs and bittorrent.
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You can avoid paying double eth gas by buying on ChangeNow.io using XLM or another low-cost-to-transfer coin/token.
The only gas paid will be when ChangeNow.io sends your Hex to your wallet and that cost is factored into the quote you get. I've used their service 5x so far after someone on Discord recommended it and each time I got more Hex than what was quoted.
Their liquidity is really low right now so careful with market buys if you do buy there. Set limit orders.
Have you looked at ChangeNow.io? With ChangeNow, you can buy with whatever coin you want. You set up a "trade" where you tell them how much of which coin you're going to send in and they'll tell you how much Hex you'll get. You input your metamask wallet (or stakerapp, or whatever your wallet of choice is) and then you send in the coin of your choice (XLM is easy, cheap to send) and they factor in all the costs so there's gas to send to your wallet is built into the price.
It's been a nice way to buy without paying double eth fees. I'd recommend looking at GWEI rates regardless to time it during lower gas times so that you end up with more Hex.
I've done 5 transactions with them now and each time ended up getting more than they quoted. I'm a fan.
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Thinking I might mine to my Exodus wallet and then swap it over. Why do crosschains have to be so complicated. I used changenow.io to try swapping to USDC - then realized after the fact I could have tried DOGE to HEX there - exchange is definitely not in my favor. Thanks for the response.
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