I miss the old crypto days

I miss the old days where you would just get an address to send to.

I tried paying for a saas using crypto, and holy shit, what a pain in the ass.

There wasn’t even an option to just pay with BTC, LTC, ETH, etc. I had to connect a wallet, so I linked my Trust Wallet. I had $20 worth of ETH, but apparently, I needed USDT instead.

Fine, I swapped my ETH to USDT. Turns out, USDT exists on different networks, and I somehow ended up with USDT on Tron. So I had to swap that to USDT on Ethereum, and it seemed like almost 50% went toward energy rental or whatever the hell that was.

Finally, I had enough USDT on Ethereum to make the payment. Guess what? Now it tells me I don’t have enough ETH to cover the gas fee.

Wtf?

I literally started with ETH. Why couldn’t you just let me pay with ETH in the first place? Instead, I had to go through multiple swaps, deal with different networks, lose money on fees, and still couldn’t make the payment.

*this rant was cleaned up by LLM but my experience was real