reading network threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly
reading network threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly, and I am aware this is a minority view on this board. Confirmation took forty minutes on a busy evening and I had already written half an angry message. Deleted it. Keep every transaction hash in a note file with the order reference. It has resolved two…
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.
Wallet address redacted from the post above. Hashes are fine here; addresses are not.
Escrow is not standard in this space. Wanting it is reasonable; expecting it as default is not.
A token symbol identifies an asset, not a network.
Agreed — and the hash is the receipt. Nothing else is.
Correcting myself upthread: it was 21 confirmations, not the number I posted, and it settled fine.
Not convinced. That fee is the network fee at that hour, and it has nothing to do with the supplier.
Sent a test amount first on a large order. Cost me a fraction of a percent and I have done it every time since.
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.
network and address, checked twice, before anything else
nobody legitimate needs the payment in the next ten minutes
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.