The Long March from Commission Dollars to Hive Tokens!

A few weeks ago I noticed I'd accumulated some unclaimed commissions on a "safelist" site called TheCryptoMailer so I sent in a withdrawal request for payment in Bitcoin (as that is one of the options provided). However, the response was that they'd prefer to payout in Litecoin.

Okay, whatever, no big deal. A few days later $47 worth of Litecoin arrived in my wallet.

The Simpleswap App

I decided to swap my Litecoin for Hive and so popped onto the SimpleSwap app that you can find in your Peakd wallet, and initiated the swap.

When I checked my Litecoin wallet, it showed that the coins had been sent. A few hours later, I checked my Hive account and found a big fat ZERO in my liquid Hive account.

I let it go for a couple of days and even began to think that my coins had gone down the virtual drain, and took to my couch and wailed and gnashed my teeth.

Meet Stephanie, the Simplesearch Robot Princess

And then I girded my loins and searched the Simplesearch site for the support link, and dropped them a line...

I was pleasantly surprised to get a prompt response from "Stephanie." Whether Stephanie be a humanoid or a robot I cannot tell, but whatever she may be, she stuck with me all the way through.

First, she requested the "Exchange ID." I had the transaction ID, but no freaking exchange ID because you don't get one when you use the Simpleswap app on PeakD to swap into Hive - at least, not as far as I know...

So I thought that would be game over. Coins down the drain all over again.

But no. Stephenie came back with a request for the address wither my coins were bound, so I sent back "hirohurl," which is my Hive address as you can see if you lift up your eyes to the top of this page.

Princess Stephanie informed me that,

"We will forward this information to the team and get back to you with updates."

Then, one was informed of the verdict:

Your exchange has been failed since you provide an invalid recipient wallet address.

But before I started to see my coins going down the drain again, I noticed this anchor of hope:

Please clarify, can we send your coins without Destination tag?

"Yes, of course you freaking well can! Just do it," I thought. But I wrote:

"My understanding is that destination tags are not required when swapping cryptocurrencies into Hive.io wallets. Hive.io wallets are unique addresses, so a destination tag is not needed."

And then, before Stephanie got around to replying, I found this in my Hive wallet:

The Coins! The Coins!

"The coins! The coins!" I shouted as if I were one of Xenophon's ten thousand Greeks who had just caught site of the sea after their long march out of Persia.

And then I powered those little beauties up as I strive to hit my target of raising a horde, not of ten thousand Greeks, but of ten thousand Hive before the year is over.

Thank you Princess Stephanie, bot or hooman, for fishing my coins out of the drain and conveying them to my wallet.

Cheers!

David Hurley
#InspiredFocus