The crypto puzzle

I'm mostly clueless when it comes to crypto-knowledge. Although notwithstanding my cluelessness I have gained crypto mainly through posting on hive but also trading and a purchase here and there. I have a Trezor hardware wallet and a Wirex ViSA card so have most bases covered I think. Earn, store and spend however I've not done the latter other than in testing. Yes, most bases covered and was feeling reasonably comfortable and then DeFi came along.

I ignored it of course; Not through lack of opportunity though - I'm in a five-person Discord chat with four others who know a lot about it and are happy to share. No, I ignored it because it seemed complicated, convoluted and I feared the process - We fear what we don't understand mostly, humans I mean. So I remained largely ignorant and was happy accepting of that and the implications.

Got your six

But fortunately someone has my six...That means watches my back. He on-boarded me to hive, after much haranguing, and has guided me through many crypto-related issues and concepts. I'm very indebted to him. I refer, of course, to my brother @tarazkp - Yes, my actual brother. Having said this though I believe the other three in that Discord chat would do the same for me; They're all bro's of course and that's what bro's do right? Titan's they are, and they got my six.

About a week ago my brother messaged and suggested I should look at the DeFi thing, get things set up for possible futures. It made sense, especially after he explained it to his clueless older brother. Within a few days we had some aspects set up thanks to links and and marked-up screen captures. It seemed easy enough and I was feeling good and then...MetaMask.

The puzzle

Last night my brother and I spent 90 minutes trying to sort an issue with it; This is made harder as he is in Finland and I'm in Australia. The issue is I'm not seeing his transfers although can transfer to him...The inbound transfer, BNB, shows in the wallet but not in the transfer-activity tab although my transfer to him does. He sent me USDT also, but it never showed up at all! It's weird.

We had shared screens in a video-chat going and never found a resolution...It was hard too, I'm doing all of this on a single laptop screen; It highlighted the fact I'm going to need a second screen though so as things progress multiple windows will be more easily managed. I was getting somewhat annoyed - Just saying.

I saw some discussions in the five-way Discord chat when I woke this morning and have some messages from my brother with more screen captures so will try the suggestions and see how it goes today. I'm just really grateful I have some help as it I'd never attempt this without it. I find it all all pretty daunting.

This is all very complicated, crypto and DeFi, and I can only imagine what it's like for uninitiated people like me who do not have the help I have. I'm grateful though and whilst he'd disagree, I feel I will owe my brother a debt of thanks. I'd like to think he'd say I've got his six although in this matter he's definitely got mine!

And what about you? How have your crypto or DeFi experiences unfolded? Feel free to comment below even if your experiences have been better than mine it would be great to see your comment, you never know what help it may provide to someone.