Hey everyone!
Recently someone in noise.cash asked me a favour to help her account to get verified for withdrawal by getting a valid and fully verified referral done, so I was thinking that since this token is already in some of the exchanges and it is running under the telos network, which is slowly rising, I might give it a try.
What's this token about?
For those who has heard about cicles.garden and PI before, it is a UBI (Universal Basic Income) kind of similar idea where the network rewards their own token on their preferred network through testing social responses to get things going for trading.
I personally do not quite like the idea of too much personal information leaked out, but since I already succumbed into KYC for Nexo and Celsius, where my digital trace is already up there, helping out someone from the Mediterranean side which could be useful for her doesn't seemed to hurt.
Although at the moment it really is having not much value, and telos network is yet to stabilise and more dApps using the chain, compared to BSC from BNB. Even Cardano is starting to catch up, which ADA now is now 60 cents ahead of telos.
Then again, who knows what the future holds for these chains?
Back to the site!
First view on the Ecoin Official site.
Outdated information
Well, I can't really blame the site because the price of BTC has gone a little crazy at the start of the year, HOWEVER, if you really want to get people to see that you are on the tip of the information, I think an updated version the price would have been a lot better, because $15,000 per BTC is a 2020 thing now.
Before I go further reviewing this site, and if you are interested to join me along with my walkthrough, there are a few things you need to do first.
Download BRAVE Browser. This can skip you a lot of headaches later
Create a special google account for this, if you don't want unnecessary spams to clog your main google account.
Or, you can also opt for personalised emails like protonmail.Make sure you are NEVER doing this in incognito mode, if you want extra perks.
Yes, for those who doesn't like this, YES, YOU NEED WHATSAPP and TELEGRAM to help you get fully verified.
(Yeah, there's no SMS option)Install Wombat browser plugin wallet. Yes, you will need that for withdrawal later.
Right! You have done all that? We can continue.
Next. Signing up experience
So the very first sign that throws at your face (I am using desktop browser) from the main page, is that you will see it. Just click on the sign up now, and you will see this next popping up.
Remember I have mentioned before to create a new google account aside for this (if you do not want to clog your main email with tons of newsletters later) exercise? this is where you can easily get in without other email verifications.
All you have to do, is to choose the account that you are already logged in (a new one or the current one you prefer), and allow this site to actually use your google login data to navigate and provide information for the site.
And that's basically the fastest way to sign up - using Google.
Once you are in... The "annoying" consensus starts.
As I have mentioned in the beginning of the post, this is about the social experience they are conducting for new users who want to hop on to reap the advantages of airdrop from them; so if you want free stuffs, you got to follow the instructions.
Why I would recommend you to have a separate email for this is the above data. I never trust sites who guarantee that they will never sell our data. Even if the founder mentioned this, somewhere along the line, some desperate ill-hearted individual will do something bad to database information here.
There will be tons of pop-ups like these that will keep getting you to join, like the lottery / installing brave browsers tasks and such just to gain ecoins, but I didn't get to screen capture everything while getting confused navigating the area.
However in order to have consistent UBI ecoins coming in, you will need to get yourself 100% verified.
Including allowing notifications which also entitled you extra coins.
Verification: Very important steps
Before you can get into this profile status, you will see a lot of buttons there for you to click on verification; and one of them is to use the WhatApp itself.
I actually have WhatsApp desktop so it was quite fast they identified my number. Yes, they need a valid phone number to reduce farming.
Linking the wallet is the next thing you need to do because they want to identify unique users all around the world, so there will be 2 wallets (don't ask me why you need 2!) in order to help you to get things fully verified.
The ecoin wallet.
you click either one of them (depending on what OS you are using) to access to it. HOWEVER those who are stuck with Microsoft platform.... sorry to say there's none there yet.
Even though the ratings is really low, but this is the only way for you to get fully verified. Fire them away with 1 star if it hangs your mobile, so that they will know that it is not working. The whole idea is people need to give them feedback to improve. So don't be shy.
Once you on your phone it says successfully registered, you can return to the site and write your new tribe account name there and click on Link Wallet.
Once this is done, you will most likely to get this.
Wombat Wallet.
Now this is also another tricky one that you need to do.
Beware of questionable wallets available there So far, the wombat wallet is recommended by the eCoin official site, so let's stick to it.
Fortunately, there's also desktop versions as Chrome / brave plugin, Android and App store. So you can easily choose any platform you like, and then create your own wallet with your unique name.
Note, it HAS TO BE 12 characters.
Once that is done, just copy your 12-character wallet name from Wombat, and click, update wallet.
Still confused?
Need not panic! There are actually 2 super simple video to show you that you are on the right track.
So that's about it, you are officially verified, and you can now get others to join you!
How about you?
Would you venture into this crazy step-by-step guide and help get another chain to experiment how they can be much better than the ETH, BNB, ADA (and many more chains) out there?
If you are interested, click on my invitation link and let your adventure begin!
Feel free to find me at t.me/craftsofluv if you are lost; but no begging for tips, I'll ban you from my contacts. 🙃
