By danielqba on Skatehive
My introduction to hive was more about work necessity than knowledge or willingness, I was given the task to integrate the Hive ecosystem into our brand new crypto "exchange". The goal was simple, process deposits and withdrawals in Hive. The first shock, create an account Creating an account was the hardest thing I ever did in the crypto space in a while, this was back in 2022 and even when I was kind of "medium-advanced" in crypto space, I just could not create a Hive account. Honestly, I was about to give up. I ended up paying in bitcoin to get a Hive account, so for me, I was not worth it, but it was my current task, so…. Mandatory. On the bright side, I really appreciated the "username" approach to the addresses. With this, I finalized the integration, and left my account abandoned, forgotten... Fast forward >>> A few years, I received a similar task from another employer, and here we go again, or so I thought. Suddenly I discovered Ecency, just an email and you can create an acco