Finally managed to get to it so here is my review.
First impressions:- I like the simple design of the site, no unnecessary distraction, just straight up information that is easy to read and understand
- the color pallet is also well chosen since it feels easy for the eyes
- informations like the “how it works” tab are easy to understand and so you can just follow the instructions that are provided
- even for somebody like me, that isn’t really into the technical aspect and fairly clueless, the whole procedure seems pretty easy
Creating of the on site BTC wallet:- just as easy as everything else, generate see phrase, safe the seed, verify the backup and set a password, just an anywhere else. Plain and simple and easy to set up to precede with the actual swap.
- for the exchange I deposited a small amount to my on site wallet
The exchange:As straight forward is it can be. Enter your amount of etc you want to exchange (I took a very small amount), the XMR destination address that’s all. Ah and also the BTC refund address if anything goes wrong of course.
Obviously there is an option to “choose makers” but since I am fairly clueless I just chose the automatic option which should give you the best BTC to XMR conversion rate automatically (only that option is offline.
Agree to the terms and off we go.
Now came the not so fun part, I had to abort the swap several times because all the time I got this:
On the first try it actually went a little bit farther but this one also just ended like this:
Not sure it it's the small amount or what exactly the problem is to not find a suitable maker. Since other people here had similar small amounts and swapped successfully I guess it just sometimes might take a while.
So yeah, after at least 5 unsuccessful tries I have sent more btc to the wallet to make a bigger swap and give more room to be picked up by more makers, since only one had the lowest min BTC amount of 0.00001 BTC. No clue why it didn't work with less, since I was still within the limits, but it is what it is. Annoying part was waiting for more BTC confirmations to get the money into the wallet.
It then finally worked but despite the initial swap offer fee of this:
It ended up being this:
So good news, it finally worked, bad news it costs 5%, which really is a lot.
Not it was waiting time again for the BTC to get confirmed and all the rest, which took about
Basically with all the countless tries, redeposit and more waiting the whole process took me over 2 hours. Yes, a bigger part of it was waiting for BTC, but still.
After all the confirmations needed for BTC and XMR I received the coin in my wallet.
Points for improvement:- it's all about time and the finding a swap maker situation really was pretty tiring tbh . Also getting quoted one thing and then paying basically double (of course I could abort) is still a bit frustrating
- the rest of the site I like and it doesn't really need improvement
The feedback on welivecrypto has also been done and I will add the link once they approved it.https://welivecrypto.com/reviews/44
