Money

You will notice that no panel in this section carries an amount, a fee percentage, a confirmation count or a waiting time in minutes. That is not an oversight. This board has no source for any of those. It has three strings and its own files, and neither of those knows anything about a balance.

What the panels can do is describe the shape of each step, name the point where a step becomes irreversible, and be specific about which parts of the wait are normal and which are worth thinking about. Shape without figures is less satisfying than a number, and it is the only honest thing available.

• The deposit addressA second long string, with a worse failure mode.
• Waiting for confirmationsThe most common panic, and the least informative one.
• What escrow holdsA change in who holds something, and nothing more.
• Where the cost sitsSeveral small points, none of them quoted here.
• Rounding and leftoversThe small amounts that arrive without being planned.
• Taking a balance back outThe step most often deferred, and what deferring costs.
• The waiting, laid outSeveral different waits, told apart without any durations.
• The steps you cannot take backA short list, named in advance because none of them warn you.