Glad that you enjoyed it. What you describe is 100% correct in essence, but let me clarify:
Send USDC to Binance ✅
Sell USDC for Hive (may require to purchase BNB if there isn't a hive USDC pair) ❌
Send Hive to hive wallet ✅
Sell hive for HBD ✅
Stake HDB ✅
As you said there's no direct HIVE/USDC pair, but Binance now autoconverts all the received USDC into BUSD, and fortunately we have an HIVE/BUSD pair, so problem solved.
Taking the original tx from 10 days ago:
seems that I staked 4991 HBD, so ~9 HBD paid in tx fees & bridging. Count with ~15 to be safe. So it's a 0,3% fee. It's covered with less than a week of HBD rewards.
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