You don't need to be sorry. Learn from the mistake and try to don't do it again!

For the process, correct. You use whatever platform you are familiar to exchange everything to bitcoin. If you can and if you're planing to store the BTC for long term, invest some sats on a cold wallet hardware.

Metamisk does not support Bitcoin, so you will use only to make the exchange.

Welcome to SN, stay humble and keep stacking sats (only!)

Being a shitcoiner always will have a cost... I would suggest to dump all those shitcoins for USD and then with the USD buy BTC from a P2P non-KYC exchange.

Also very important! NEVER EVER use anymore Uphold, they are actually HoldUp. Read ALL my guides and your life will start fresh. I am glad you took this important decision in your life. You will, gonna make it!

If i was to be in this situation now, i wouldnt take the route you are doing. Only because the amount isnt risky yet.

At this stage I would convert all to BTC. Get a reputable lightning wallet (maybe alby+bluewallet). Even though its custodial is not an issue in your case. And send them over lightning.

This is not the best approach, but you can do this relatively safely until you get to $100 then start moving into a better lightning solution. Maybe Phoenix, or by that time, new Zeus would be out.

When you get to a $1000 start moving to a real wallet on chain.

The reason I am saying all this, is i want to save you as much transaction fees as possible. This is really good especially if your exchange supports lightning. Binance does now, if you are on binance.

This is the perfect channel to ask for help!

That is a frightening username.

So like this video says you want to be using a fresh image (tails USB is specifically what its recommending) and removing all wireless from it. That means the WiFi NIC, Bluetooth, and no connecting via Ethernet is not acceptable either. 100% disconnected from the internet.

So that's probably going to work fine for the amount we're looking at (heck a hot wallet is probably fine for the amount we're looking at) but like idk what country you're from. I've seen people say they can live off of stacker news tips because they're just from a country were you can live off of that amount of money.

Anyway, so this probably isn't useful right now given the size of your stack, but since you did play around with all kinds of shitcoins, do Bitcoin the courtesy of playing around with all kinds of setups and wallets.

At a certain point, maybe you'll appreciate the methodology of Liana wallet: https://wizardsardine.com/liana/ Which is, no BIP 39 seed phrases, just have a lot of devices and timelocks laying around that losing or bricking a few PCs doesn't mean you lose your funds because you just have access to your funds on so many devices.

Maybe one day, you'll have saved so much money that you start to think about glacier: https://glacierprotocol.org/ Or maybe you take a few lessons from glacier now, but think this or that part of its recommendations is not for you right now.

There's a lot to learn. So if you're ever bored and you think there's nothing left, you're wrong. Hit up SN so we can point you in the direction of something new.

I am seeing a lot of sats in your future as you detail your reformation from shitcoining to bitcoin maxi. I look forward to observing your journey.

Props to you for making the switch man :)

I realize that a bunch of other people have given you advice on this already, but here's my attempt. I'm going with the "easiest and cheapest approach you might actually use" route, as I've been in your shoes before and understand what would probably be the best way to do this.

I'll assume with this that you're not registered on any other exchanges. Uphold sucks, by the way, their fees are ludicrous and they don't allow withdrawal of your assets to many of the networks they claim to "support".

Seeing as the majority of your funds are in BAT, I would first trade that into ETH, if they have a BAT/ETH pair, so you don't incur an additional fee on swapping from BAT > USD and then ETH > USD again, you can go BAT > ETH and then swap out all of the ETH > USD, since you might not even qualify to do a transaction for as low as under $1. Again, you may not be able to do the same with your RUNE, but you can try swapping that out to USD as well.

Here's the step I'm sure many here will disagree with, but I'll hold firm on my advice since you're messing with under $10 here. I would take that USD you accumulate on Uphold and use it to buy something with the lowest transfer fees possible. Been a while since I've been on Uphold, but the idea of using XRP is only a good idea until you realize that all XRP wallets require you have a "deposit" amount of 10 XRP minimum on your self-custody wallet, so that right there would eat up about 50% of your funds.

If they have Solana on Uphold, or XLM (Stellar), I would go with that. Or Nano. In that order of preference...Nano has kind of fallen into the shitter and few places use it anymore. If you go with Solana the fees on it will be negligible, and they probably have a very low minimum withdrawal amount, as the fees to withdraw will be like 0.002 SOL or so from the exchange (which is like 4 cents or so, in reality they are only paying about 1/4 of a cent). You can withdraw it to your own self-custody wallet, I would suggest using the "Phantom" wallet (phantom.app is the website). It's quite simple to use and set up, on mobile or desktop. Solflare is another good wallet for Solana as well.

If you have to go with Stellar instead, the best wallet that I know of for it is the LOBSTR wallet (on mobile) or the xBull wallet (on desktop, it's a chrome/brave extension). On Stellar you have a similar situation as XRP but the deposit minimum for your wallet is only 1.5 XLM which currently is about 20 cents, give or take. On SOL there is no such minimum.

Once you have the funds on Solana, I would suggest that the route you go is either to use a decentralized swap service like Fixedfloat -- it's a self-custody swap service and they support lightning BTC. You basically go to their site (if you're in the USA you'll have to use a VPN FYI) and then choose to do a swap from Solana to Lightning BTC. You should make sure to leave a tiny amount of SOL in your wallet for the fees, somewhere around 0.02 or 0.03 SOL is more than enough.

The way that Fixedfloat works is that once you generate the swap you can either pick from a set fee (which is 1%) or a float fee (which is 0.5%), the difference being on a float fee you can potentially get more or less of what you are swapping for depending on if the market moves in the time it takes to do the swap. Since the process of this will be near instantaneous given that Solana takes 400 milliseconds for a transaction to confirm, and BTC on lightning takes about the same amount of time or less, you can safely choose the lesser fee and be fine with it.

Once you put in the numbers of what you're sending (the amount of SOL will be around 0.5 SOL given current market prices) it'll show you on the screen how much BTC you're expected to get.

Now the last thing we need to do is have a wallet for you to receive the BTC on lightning with. If you're on desktop PC, I would recommend going with the Alby wallet. The website is https://getalby.com -- of course there are going to be people on here who, like much of the rest of my comment, will disagree with me and say you should be running your own self custodied lightning wallet and own node and blah blah blah. Don't listen to them, this is insane. On mobile there are a few different options, people tend like Breez, Phoenix or Wallet of Satoshi for mobile LN. To be honest there's not really a good mobile (or desktop) self-custody LN wallet solution available yet, so I would say go with Alby and be done with it. Make sure you save all of your information in your password manager or somewhere else safe, including somewhere you can write it down offline.

To receive the funds from Fixedfloat to get your lightning BTC in your Alby wallet, you just click on "receive" in the wallet UI and you enter in the number of sats you are expecting (optional) and then click generate to generate a LN "invoice", this is basically a long ass string of letters and numbers that tells the Fixedfloat site (or anything else you're doing with lightning) where to send the funds to, how much, a note if they want to include it, etc. Just copy and paste it into the Fixedfloat site and then click to process the transaction. It should all take like literally under 30 seconds.

Then you're done, and you've got yourself some BTC on lightning network.

Once you figure things out and stack some sats on here or elsewhere in the LN ecosystem (you'll find people can be quite generous and kind if you're not an asshole and are contributing actually useful/interesting material, not spamming for sat tips lol) you can always swap your LN BTC back out to mainnet bitcoin quite easily.

I prefer the fantastic swap service (that I learned about here, actually) called BOLTZ -- they are the only one that I use for swapping bitcoin into lightning network bitcoin, and vice versa. Their fees are incredibly low, next to nothing (especially from mainnet BTC > lightning -- the other way around can be a tad costly depending on the current rate on the mainchain, when average fees were at ~44 sat/vB earlier today, the cost to do a swap of around $50 of lightning BTC back to mainnet BTC would've cost me ~$3.50, just FYI) and it's all done non-custodially, in your own wallet. I would suggest leaving this end of things until you have other stuff figured out, and you can figure out what kind of a wallet you want to use on your bitcoin journey. But if you do this and get yourself your sats on lightning network, you're already like 90% of the way there in my opinion, don't let anyone get you down or discourage you.

Welcome, by the way. Sooner or later this sort of thing tends to happen to everyone and they realize that the only real option for staying in this "space" and remaining sane is to embrace inevitability and join with the bitcoin 'maximalists'. Feel free to let me know if you need any help, sorry for writing this long-ass novel.

We all have been there. From shitcoiners to Bitcoiners.

And now you're getting some free sats as a reward for the step. Keep going, because the rewards will increase as you go.

Never be sorry for trying to learn/understand the Blockchain technology, nor apologize to someone you don't know, unless you did something to hurt him/her... That said, learning always has a cost, either you pay it before hand or you pay it after, some pay more than others and it takes time to learn this stuff, nothing happens overnight. Most of plebs have gone the same rabbit hole, even if some of them don't want to recognize it, so put yourself up and start fresh cuz the future is bright! Learn about how to buy BTC with No KYC and you should be rocking and rolling my fren

Welcome to Bitcoiners) Unfortunately, many people need to experience all the "charms" of shitcoins and lose everything before they can go back to their roots and start using Bitcoin.

You made the right choice, now keep learning and you will succeed.

No amount is too small and Lightning network is efficient to facilitate this, I personally use Wallet of Satoshi on mobile and GetAlby on Desktop

If Uphold allows you to convert and send (with low fees) using XRP, perhaps you can try using FixedFloat (https://fixedfloat.com).

Allows you to convert from one currency to another. It is not P2P, but it also does not have KYC, so it is better than using any exchange.

What I don't know is if Uphold will cause problems when sending to the wallet addresses that must be indicated. But to look and try.

It's all about learning, and then being able to teach or advise.

I have just sold all my shitcoins, even at losses, investing again in other assets and closing the accounts of all the KYC platforms I have been on. It is a slow process, but it is possible.

Nice move

Welcome!

You could also swap everything to a shitcoin you can find here https://fixedfloat.com/ (perferably with low transaction fees, so xrp is maybe a good choice) and then swap it to either your electrum wallet (on-chain) or a lightning wallet (phoenix?).

You said the worst thing in this group. But your deed is well. You could live longer.