I Can Be Stupid Sometimes

Well, a lot of the time really. This time though was one of those moments of complete relief coupled with a low grumbling voice calling myself an idiot.

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Source

This is what came up when I typed tickle me Thursday into Night Café. I don't know what to think about this creature but I figured he would serve as a mascot for today.

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I Decided To Try This Thing Called Dextools

Okay, so Dextools is a decentralised exchange or whatever, but the reason I was interested in it was because of a want to get involved in tokens as they launch, to try and be something of an early bird. There's an option to view live new pairs and check them out to see if any stand out as being a potentially good thing to throw some money at.

I honestly wouldn't tell anyone to do this, because there are a lot of scam coins, duplicates, and rug pulls in general. So, there are big risks involved in doing this.

Yeah, anyway, besides the risks, I thought I'd throw a fiver, or tenner into some of them and potentially make some money if those coins went on to get listed.

After putting some money on my Metamask, I realised that I couldn't send any of it to Dextools because I had to gas, so I had to go and put some Ethereum on it to cover the costs involved with transferring money, and then purchase whatever shitcoins that caught my eye.

I was set, and ready to go, I chose the coin and was ready to buy a tenner's worth, and a prompt came up saying something which I didn't really read before accepting.

BOOM All of my money was gone from Metamask.

I don't know what happened, or why it was gone, but 85 Euros disappeared from my account, and I wasn't even given any of the stupid coins I wanted to buy.

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This took place at 2:30 PM while Kaleb was having a nap, and then after a while of searching, I was looking at my 85 Euro on Etherscan but had no way of doing anything about it.

I contacted Metamask support, and they saw the transaction and after about 30 minutes said I would need to contact Dextools about the issue. I couldn't do that so instead I just looked at my money lying somewhere in the ether, and I wondered how many other poor souls had this happen to them over the years.

At around 7:30 PM, I gave up, I had thoroughly wasted my whole day looking it up and trying to figure out what happened, but nothing helped.

This headache, and wasted time are currently worth more than the 85 Euros, so I'll just give up and forget about it. In the back of my mind I didn't want to let it go, but I knew I had to give up.

On the off chance, I checked my wallet, to see if by some magic I sent it back to myself, and sure enough it was sitting there... I'm an idiot.

Also, get this, I spent 20 Dollars-ish worth of Ethereum to send it back to myself. Day wasted. Headache suffered. And I was down 20 quid for the trouble. But, at least I got it back.

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That is why I gave up on Dextools and decided I wouldn't try it out again, it's too head wrecking, and I'm afraid of wasting more money transferring money to myself.

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@ablaze wrote a post last week about an idea to create a piece of content with the intention of sharing something funny, and I figured I would give it a go this week and share my mishap.