Catch 22

[heybarry]

Hello,  I am writing this in regards to activating the ripple wallet. I have for the past few days been trying to transfer from my hosted wallet which I had transferred some ETH from Coinbase. I am aware it the ripple wallet requires 20xrp in order to become active.  I have tried to send from shape shift and it just says try later even though I am 100% sure all addresses for the wallets are right. Is there another simple way of sending the money to my ripple wallet. I have also looked at https://bithomp.com/ but to be honest this was above me a little as I had no idea what any of it meant.As for  https://changelly.com I go through all the steps and then get  "Server unavailable Please try again in a minute" 

This is my first foray into Crypto Currency so as you all will be familiar it takes a bit of getting used to.

 

Any advice will be welcome as I have been on reddit and many people just say you send 20xrp to the wallet but its the initial 20xrp I need to convert. 

thanks in advance Barry

[mrcarrot]

Your best bet is to send ETH to a different exchange (such as binance) to convert into XRP and then send that XRP to your gatehub wallet.

[heybarry]

Thanks for the quick reply I will log into Binance and try that as I had opened an account when trying every possible avenue to sort this ridiculous setup. I feel Gate hub could possibly look at the need to be able to do that within the site itself. I'm sure there is a reason they don't but for someone who is new to this game it becomes needlessly complicated navigating the crypto currency world.

Thanks again.

 

[heybarry]

Out of interest would there be a reason that Shapeshift isn't allowing me to send to my Ripple wallet. I have been told they are good but the more I read about them they appear to have just as many bad things said about them.

[heybarry]

So I sent some ETH to Binance and Gatehub says its sent but nothing has arrived. I am guessing it may take some time and then I need to sit down and figure how to get it converted on Binance to XRP then back to gate hub. 

[Champipple]

3 minutes ago, heybarry said:

So I sent some ETH to Binance and Gatehub says its sent but nothing has arrived. I am guessing it may take some time and then I need to sit down and figure how to get it converted on Binance to XRP then back to gate hub. 

Hope this helps. https://buyingripple.com/

I have had no issues transferring coins in and out of Binance. It will take a little longer if they get overwhelmed but typically, most transactions only take a few minutes. Good luck

Edited January 2, 2018 by Champipple