Why is my phone saying pay eth fee after I just paid every dollar to my name!

[Craighton1]

Please help me I know very little about this stuff and my son just had me send him this coin and after all day and 180 dollars which I couldn't afford this thing says I cant send without eth.  I'm on my last nerve with this bitcoin stuff I don't know what 2 do.

[mk4]

Give us more information so we can help you.

1. What wallet are you using?
2. What specific cryptocurrency did you receive?

[Craighton1]

Trust wallet , I had bitcoin and then I switched with usdc cause my son told me to and when I did that it didnt ask for eth..?

[mk4]

Trust wallet , I had bitcoin and then I switched with usdc cause my son told me to and when I did that it didnt ask for eth..?

USDC is an Ethereum ERC20 token, so the network/transaction fees you need to pay are going to be in ETH.

Take note that USDC is not necessarily "real" dollars, it's just a dollar-backed cryptocurrency.

[anu1908]

how did you switch to usdc? did you use the built-in instant swap service?
why not ask your son to get some eth so you can send your tokens, or swap it back to eth for future use?