the channel about value moving, slowly
The money channel
Most of the money side is waiting. Understanding what you are waiting for takes almost all the anxiety out of it.
the three wethenorth market addresses
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the shape of this channel
Money on a market like this moves in one direction at a time and never instantly. A deposit is a transaction that has to be seen and then confirmed. An order puts value somewhere neither side controls. A withdrawal is another transaction with another wait.
At each stage the interface tells you very little, and the gap between what you can see and what is happening is where people get frightened.
what is in here
How a deposit works. What confirmations are and why they take the time they take. Escrow in plain words. Where the fees go. What to do about a deposit that has not landed. Getting money back out. And the decision people make without noticing, which is leaving a balance sitting there.
one thing this channel will not do
It will not quote a fee, a minimum, a confirmation count or a waiting time as though it were a fact about the market right now. Those change, and this feed does not open the market to check.
It describes mechanisms instead, which stay true for longer and are more useful anyway.
replies
a reader askedDoes this feed handle payments in any way?
the answerNo. There is nothing on this site that takes money, holds money, or connects to anything that does. It is a reading site with no forms on it at all.
a reader askedWhere should I start?
the answerWith how a deposit works, because everything else in this channel assumes the picture that post sets up.
what this post is not This channel is not financial advice and not a fee schedule. It explains what the moving parts are, and it prints no numbers that would need checking.