In recent times I’ve been digging deep into the past. Yesterday I got a KONRA from Empress, but the SmartBCH version. You can also get yours by dropping your address on his noisecash post and also adding the CA. Going through ate Sydai’s noisecash post a few minutes back, I got to know that you can also get it on Benswap and will soon be on Mistswap. 1 KONRA is equivalent to 0.0006BCH as at the time I’m typing this.
Months back I got the SLP version from him and I’ve Hodl on to it ever since. I decided to check out my wallet where the various SLPs are kept and I saw the other SLPs I have and the residual USDt in it. This brought back memories of an event that happened months back. I dropped the snippet on noisecash before going to bed but here is the full details and the lessons I learnt from it.
On the BCH Nigeria group, we tend to organize quiz and giveaway events from time to time. I decided to organize one a certain night and after sharing few shareable links, I decided to use another dimension. I thought of what I could do that will benefit the members and I decided to go with letting them know the importance of the seed phrase. How they can lose all that they have by giving it out.
I sent $5 to one of my wallets which I don’t use constantly and sent a screenshot of the seed phrase to the group.
Few minutes after sending the seed phrase I realized it was the same wallet I had SLPs on (Though they might have no value I intend to Hodl them all), to make matter worse I have some dollar there(USDt). Few weeks before the event, I swapped some BCH to USDt to trade when BCH falls. It was this same wallet I used. Imagine how I felt. Here I am trying to form the "Great teacher " and I'm making such a silly mistake. I need to be spanked. lol
I can't remember the number of people that imported the wallet that night but the fastest or should I call it smartest transferred the BCH to another wallet as instructed. But the SLP and Fiat were still there. Quickly, I deleted the screenshot and also transferred the SLPs out but the dollar was still right there. I didn't know how to get it out, likewise, others that imported the wallet. Weeks later, I was able to swap it back to BCH thanks to a noisecash post from Sir Telesfor.
After the event played in my mind again yesterday. I asked myself, "why didn't the few who imported the wallet get the usdt on the wallet back then?". The best answer that came to mind was "They didn't know how to go about it" which I believe is a good excuse. I was also ignorant of how to go about it then.
The thought of what could have happened if someone knew how to swap back or if the person go through the stress of trying to learn how to swap it came to mind and I realized the excuse I said was valid earlier isn't valid.
Do everything to learn.
What seems to be so hard will remain hard if you never attempt to learn it. So many of us are comfortable and willing to accept everything as fate. We fear making mistakes. We fear failing. We wait for others to do it first before we take a step. I had a similar experience with the SmartBCH network (that's a story for another day).
The biggest challenge you can have is "starting". Once you take a step towards learning that thing people count as "stressful, waste of time, difficult or complex" you are already halfway through getting it done. Not knowing something is one thing, having the opportunity to learn it but choosing not to learn it is where the problem is. You can’t know it all, be open-minded to learning. I sometimes learn new things from my students.
When it comes to learning something new there is no one I can’t ask for help. I’m an introvert though some of my friends might disagree.😂 But when it comes to learning something new, I’m never shy to learn it. Till the day we leave this world we will continue to learn, the day we stop learning, we are as good as dead. That stuff you’ve been pushing till a later date, why don’t you take steps today? you have nothing to lose by learning it.
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I also got 1 Konra from Empress the other day :) Learning is always good.