I still do not understand why people send low amounts "to test their wallets".
Any decent wallet app have an important feature: sign message. You can send a message and sign it with your wallet, no need to send any funds. That way you know that your wallet is the right one and works fine.
Another way to verify:
  • go to wallet information and extract the xpub (MPK master public key), import it into another wallet app and see if you have generated SAME first 10-20 BTC addresses. If are the same you are good to go.
  • use the seed to import your wallet into another wallet app and see if you have the SAME BTC addresses.
That's it.
Bitcoin is a currency, not a messaging app.
Bitcoiners like yourself are always talking about mass adoption and hyperbitcoinization as the goal.
How am i supposed to go to my friends, family and neighbors and say “you should be using bitcoin. Let me show you how easy and affordable it is by sending you a text message and exporting a big long string of characters.”?
No. People will want to see how funds can be moved around. As much as you may want everyone to get away from their “fiat mindset” thats really the only way they will, initially, think about bitcoin.
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