SEOCodeLab
Power Member
- Jun 18, 2012
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Heya,
The other day I had to pay someone with crypto, because he couldn't get paypal or any other form of payment. And my thoughts were that it was easy to setup and send money.
So, I started by creating an account in binance. All good, fast, easy.
Then I needed to create a wallet. To create a wallet you need to confirm your account. Okay no worries, confirmed email.
Great now I have to deposit money, coolio. Let me check what do they accept, only Credit cards. Fine let me grab the CC and start depositing the money.
Oh, to deposit money you to actually have to verify your identity. Take a selfie and upload your ID. (Where is the anonimity in crpyto?) Well, ok, lets do it.
Take a walk around the park or go do the shopping because it takes a while to verify your account.
Hooray after 3 hours my account got verified.
Let me grab the CC and deposit. Denied by my bank account. What? Check if I have money in the bank... There is plenty... Wtf? My bank does not allow depositing into binance until you actually call them. Weird. Well let me use Wise VCC. Deposited money on Wise, and at last! the CC of wise works. I deposited the money.
Uff that was long, surely, now everything should go smooth.
Let me see the wallet of this guy... Okay he only wants USDT. Fine, let me convert some BTC to USDT. I will convert all of it to USDT as I dont think I will use BTC. Fine, done.
Great, let me send to this guy the monies.
You can't, what, why? Well you need to have ETH also in your account because to pay for the "gas". Wtf is gas? Oh, okay so if you want to send and receive eth based crypto you have to pay a gas-fee for the transaction. Errm ok. How much is it? between 2 and 4 dollars depends. WTF it means depends? I dont care anymore i just want to pay now.
Wait, I converted all the money to USDT, I need to deposit AGAIN and buy ETH. Fuckiiinggg heeeeellllll. Get Wise, deposit in wise, wait for wise.... buy ETH in binance, wait for the deposite to be confirmed..... Okay now I will be able to send the money!
Binance message: Your account is limited to trade and transfer. Our automated system will lock your ability to withdraw under certain circumstances. If this has happened to you, you may want to understand why.
WTF???????
In these cases, please wait 48 hours for your ability to be reinstated.
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And here stops my rant on crypto exchanges. I know people here will come and say that I am stupid and this is not how you should do stuff, etc... I know!
between gas fees, transaction costs and other costs like my wise deposit, you end up paying around 6 or 8$ on transaction fees which is fucking huge.
The other day I had to pay someone with crypto, because he couldn't get paypal or any other form of payment. And my thoughts were that it was easy to setup and send money.
So, I started by creating an account in binance. All good, fast, easy.
Then I needed to create a wallet. To create a wallet you need to confirm your account. Okay no worries, confirmed email.
Great now I have to deposit money, coolio. Let me check what do they accept, only Credit cards. Fine let me grab the CC and start depositing the money.
Oh, to deposit money you to actually have to verify your identity. Take a selfie and upload your ID. (Where is the anonimity in crpyto?) Well, ok, lets do it.
Take a walk around the park or go do the shopping because it takes a while to verify your account.
Hooray after 3 hours my account got verified.
Let me grab the CC and deposit. Denied by my bank account. What? Check if I have money in the bank... There is plenty... Wtf? My bank does not allow depositing into binance until you actually call them. Weird. Well let me use Wise VCC. Deposited money on Wise, and at last! the CC of wise works. I deposited the money.
Uff that was long, surely, now everything should go smooth.
Let me see the wallet of this guy... Okay he only wants USDT. Fine, let me convert some BTC to USDT. I will convert all of it to USDT as I dont think I will use BTC. Fine, done.
Great, let me send to this guy the monies.
You can't, what, why? Well you need to have ETH also in your account because to pay for the "gas". Wtf is gas? Oh, okay so if you want to send and receive eth based crypto you have to pay a gas-fee for the transaction. Errm ok. How much is it? between 2 and 4 dollars depends. WTF it means depends? I dont care anymore i just want to pay now.
Wait, I converted all the money to USDT, I need to deposit AGAIN and buy ETH. Fuckiiinggg heeeeellllll. Get Wise, deposit in wise, wait for wise.... buy ETH in binance, wait for the deposite to be confirmed..... Okay now I will be able to send the money!
Binance message: Your account is limited to trade and transfer. Our automated system will lock your ability to withdraw under certain circumstances. If this has happened to you, you may want to understand why.
WTF???????
In these cases, please wait 48 hours for your ability to be reinstated.
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And here stops my rant on crypto exchanges. I know people here will come and say that I am stupid and this is not how you should do stuff, etc... I know!
between gas fees, transaction costs and other costs like my wise deposit, you end up paying around 6 or 8$ on transaction fees which is fucking huge.