I think I've greeded (Greedo-ed) myself into a bit of a hole.
Maybe not a hole. But a pickle.
A rookie pickle. Noob pickle.
A not-thinking-ahead pickle.
(are you wanting pickles now? I want a pickle. Drown my pickle in pickles. How many more times can I write pickle?)
I got ahead of myself, and now I am behind myself, and I am going to probably lose money on my own exuberant ignorance.
I am going to (prob) have to walk away from some money. Not much money. But money nonetheless.
Let me confess, er, explain. I fell under the siren song of those godfersaken faucets (FREEEEEEEEE CRYPTO!) -- and got into this clicky daily habit. That's not the issue.
The issue is that I'm an idiot, I mean, the drips from faucets are just that, drips. Like, sometimes fractions of a cent. Again, not exactly the problem.
Most of these faucets don't let you transfer these drips anywhere until you meet some minimum threshold for withdrawal -- which, usually, means no one can touch their droplets for like, six years of daily tapping. And actually, that's fine. As I wake up to the fact that that is a complete and utter waste of time, I can just STOP doing those (boo-hoo, I'm leaving 9/10 of one cent here, and 1/5 of a cent there. I can live with that. Never look back).
The problem I have is with the slightly better to awesome faucets, which I'll link in resources below if you manage to read this whole entry and are still tempted. I mean, don't. But I'm not your mom.
These faucets give more per visit, and, in 2 cases, immediately transfer your dripped currency into your wallet. The 2 I'm referring to both drip ZCash, and they are both reliable AF.
Neither drip MUCH. Maybe half a cent at a time. But it feeeeeels soooooo good -- seductive, really -- to hit a faucet, then check your wallet and see a transfer in. It's goddam intoxicating.
There's the problem. See it? Right there?
I've milked these faucets, every day, for 2 months. I have 52 cents (US) of ZCash.
Now, on one hand, that's awesome. I know. Gift horse, mouth, don't look. But I looked. And that's some horrible ass teeth I see (on my other hand).
WTF am I going to do with 52 cents?
Nothing. That's what. Unless I stay married to these faucets, every day, for another few months, nay, a year (pending they don't lose funding or go bad). I can't really do shit with less than a dollar*, unless I use my money-money to buy more ZCash and raise my balance.
* Here's another way in which it's ALL MY FAULT. I thought I was sooooooooo smart for not using a wallet like Coinbase, cuz, yanno, security and coolness and I-am-too-smart. At Coinbase, one can easily trade and exchange and crap. Where I'm at, uh, the fees to move my whopper 50 cents will cost almost my whole 50 cents.
Yup. DUMMYVILLE POPULATION ME
Which, unless I want to be a click zombie (will prob have to) or walk away from 52 cents, as well as my 30 cents of this and 12 cents of that and 6 cents of some other thing...which is fine. I know! People have lost MORE. So much more. Losing less than 3 bucks is no nightmare.
No nightmare. But a stupid, idiot pickle if I spent 5 minutes thinking ahead, could have totally prevented, and socked away that 3 dollars and and.
So, how to be not me:
Fine, use the good faucets. But for the love of cheese and goblins, send that petty change to Coinbase. Use a better wallet for your real dosh. But take advantage of Coinbase's lax transfer rules and mooshe all that change into something.
Or check out Ledger's Coin Control (hat tip to @TheKragle for the tip). Or any of the services which allow you to consolidate your dusty change into something. At least a cup of coffee.
Or a jar of damn pickles.
Those two, legit, pay-immediately ZCash faucets, which you visit at your peril, lest you heed my warnings
Greedo image credit: Pat Loika (https://www.flickr.com/people/25569106@N00)
