Recently (a day or two ago), I finally created a Hive account. The first bump in the road was that on creating my account, I didn't put in enough ETH to get any HIVE into it. (I just paid for the account.) The next issue was that, having signed into Splinterlands, I bought the spell book and set my username to something other than my Hive wallet address/ID. Only too late did I realise that I was supposed to. Once it's set, it's set for good and I cannot change it (which means no earnings for playing, so no good). I also cannot create a Hive account with that username (registration forms complain that it is already in use). To get around that, I have created a new Hive account. Hopefully, I can register on Splinterlands with that new account. Otherwise, I've wasted time and money.

Thirdly, having used Inji to create an account, I cannot get it to recognise/integrate either of my hive accounts. After I type and save my posting key in the appropriate textbox, I am prompted to enter my "Encryption Key/Password". I don't know what I'm supposed to enter here (and I can't find a "contact support" or "get help" link on the site. There's no tooltip or info text to inform me of what it wants, either. (I've tried every key and password I have for the account, to no avail. While the "Save" button enables, clicking it doesn't submit the form or indicate any signs of having updated the account settings. This is particularly obvious when I try to write a post: I get the warning "Hive is not enabled". How am I supposed to earn Hive on a hive-based micro-blogging site if I can't connect my account? Grr!)

Oh well, I guess I will know better when it comes to warning people about potential gotchas.)

Also, I am unable to sign up to Steemit.com, since it wants to verify my phone number, but I am not getting sent a verification code for it. The email verification works just fine. Oh, well, so much for that. I think I'll just stick to Pub0x and read.cash for now ...

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