The importance of sending a small test-amount first when moving your assets around

So I a few weeks ago I finally decided to move all my ETH to my cold storage wallet. Being a paranoid fuck, I decided to test with a small test-amount first.

Turns out I had accidentally copy/pasted the wrong address. The test amount never arrived. Thankfully, I only lost about what was then €15. Otherwise I’d have lost all my ETH that I’ve been accumulating since 2017 which would have made me very angry.

Just goes to show you how it’s really good practice to first do it with a test amount. This technology is still young and you have no protection against these kind of dumb typos.