04-05-2022, 10:24 PM
I’ll take my idiot of the day award. Make me feel better by sharing your “damn I
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I sent $500 worth of USDT-BEP20 on my smartchain subnet of MetaMask to my Ethereum ERC-20 custodial wallet with Kraken. According to kraken, when a deposit is sent on the Binance Smart Chain to a standard Ethereum address, the private keys would need to be exported and then imported into a Binance Smart Chain wallet in order to recover the funds. </p> <p>However, this is not possible with their ERC-20 deposit addresses, as they are generated using smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. Addresses generated this way don’t have private keys associated to them, therefore they have nothing to export.</p> <p>Therefore, my money gone. Therefore, I am a fool. Dammit.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/sethrage17"> /u/sethrage17 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/twtybt/ill_take_my_idiot_of_the_day_award_make_me_feel/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/twtybt/ill_take_my_idiot_of_the_day_award_make_me_feel/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I sent $500 worth of USDT-BEP20 on my smartchain subnet of MetaMask to my Ethereum ERC-20 custodial wallet with Kraken. According to kraken, when a deposit is sent on the Binance Smart Chain to a standard Ethereum address, the private keys would need to be exported and then imported into a Binance Smart Chain wallet in order to recover the funds. </p> <p>However, this is not possible with their ERC-20 deposit addresses, as they are generated using smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. Addresses generated this way don’t have private keys associated to them, therefore they have nothing to export.</p> <p>Therefore, my money gone. Therefore, I am a fool. Dammit.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/sethrage17"> /u/sethrage17 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/twtybt/ill_take_my_idiot_of_the_day_award_make_me_feel/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/twtybt/ill_take_my_idiot_of_the_day_award_make_me_feel/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R