Some time around June/July of this year (2022), Sweatco (the developers of the SweatCoin app) announced that SweatCoin would be getting its own token, SWEAT, earned in the same way as one earned SweatCoin (SWC). The community was delighted, since some had been waiting for an exchange from as early as 2016/17. (It's apparently based on the Near protocol, but also as an ERC20.)
I only found out about the app and signed up in November of 2021. It took me a day of tinkering with my phone's permissions and settings, but after that I was up and going without issue. All was going well until the device on which I installed it started packing up, around the time that the announcement of SWEAT came out. (The temperature sensor is broken/faulty. If it isn't in direct contact with an icepack, it determines that the device is overheating and shuts it off within seconds! Have you ever gone for a walk or a jog with an icepack in your pocket, pressed against your leg? It's not fun.)
I did what anyone would do; I bought a new and smaller device and installed the counting app on it. In retrospect, that wasn't so clever, since that's when the problems started. At first, the app stopped paying out SWC, even though it was still counting my steps. Then it stopped counting my steps altogether. Here's why: The app has an anti-cheat mechanism built in, to prevent people earning more SWC/SWEAT than they should. The fact that I had put it on a second device without removing it from the first caused neither of them to count my steps. The fact that I upgraded the installed versions, thinking it was a bug that would be fixed, is likely what caused it to kick in. Having got nowhere and getting fed up, I uninstalled the app from the second device, since it was taking up space and going unused.
To cut a long story shorter, I got an email today that the SWEAT wallet app is ready for download. So I downloaded it to the new device and tried to log in. No dice. Even though I followed the instructions, I could not log in. The app would not open the login link from my email or provide anywhere where I could paste it or the restoration code. Firefox kept interfering and opening the login link, which of course resulted in login failure. In frustration, I went and installed it on the old device. Hey, presto! The first time I opened it, it gave me the option to log in with the SweatCoin app. Having upgraded that and logged in, I now have SWEAT tokens in my wallet and the app is counting again on that device. Whether I'll get SWC/SWEAT for the steps I've taken (either today or in the past) remains to be seen, but it's a step in the right direction (no pun intended). If not, I might have to contact the support team or developers and ask what I can/should do about it.
It's quite annoying, too, because I can easily do over seven thousand (7 000) steps on a Saturday morning when I'm at my job exercising pooches. (10 000 steps are really not taxing, despite all the hooplah Skyrim makes about them.) All those steps have gone uncounted and unpaid over the last three months or more. Oh, well, there's nothing I can do about that now. Hindsight is always 20-20.
In the worst case scenario, I have some SWEAT that I can eventually exchange for something else, even if I am unable to earn/receive any more. I just hope there isn't a cap for the minimum number of tokens one can exchange, or, if there is, that I've got enough to exceed it. Otherwise, I might hold a competition and give them away to one lucky reader, once it becomes possible to do so. Time will tell.
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