so here is the xp. i actually wanted to try to use Base, B3. I finally found an old metamask wallet, and somehow i had 22$ in it. It is 4 years old so it was probably nothing then. I connected the metamask and clicked to pay ETH. I learned i need to use a bride to swap Base eth to B3 eth (or something like that). But then i learned i need to Swap Eth to Base Eth. And it asked for 7$ of fees. And by the times shown, probably over 15 minutes to do all of that.
So i gave up and decided to use hive.
15 seconds later i got credits. (15 seconds because i actually looked what keychain wrote about transaction).
I clicked claim.
15 minutes later it is still Broadcasting request to B3 to mint.
Hey @bil.prag, I understand the issues you mentioned. If you withdraw from an exchange directly to Base, the transaction fees would be very slim. So I'd prefer that option rather than having to bridge manually from Ethereum.
Regarding the broadcasting, sometimes the notifications aren't received by the website. So it's broadcasted, website just doesn't know. Should be fixed soon.
i don't have ETH (could not justify using it when transactions were half of an average monthly pay in my country, so never got into buying it) so i can't test it out, but from what i seen i can't get ETH from Binance to Base directly.
So it is kinda depending on where do you have access. Coinbase does not like me. So if you have access to Binance it is much faster and cheaper to go the Hive root. If you use Coinbase, maybe it is Base.
edit:
Just noticed you can't make small transactions. Like buying 1 potion, even if you just need one. I assume that is a limitation of fees on B3/Base.
You can withdraw to from Binance to Base. Network fee was about $0.10, but Base was mentioned as "congested". For simple payments, it's best to use the cheapest transaction fee as possible, for Hive that'd be gasless.
Regarding the minimum purchase amount: let me look into that. It should be possible to purchase 1 at a time, so I might need to fix that.