IMPORTANT: Have you remembered to register your EOS? Do it before June 3rd, or you will lose your EOS.

Ah..cryptos. The day never turns out the way you thought it would. The plan was to go through my tokens and try to see if I found someone that I should get rid of. What I did was to read some Twitter-updated, Reddit-posts, some news and to get a general feeling of what's going on.. I only made it to EOS.

And then I realized I had missed something important. Fortunately, if you missed it as well, you have until June 3rd to fix it. Please fix it long before June 3rd to be on the safe side though.If you don't do it, your EOS will be worthless.

EOS is an ERC20 token. That much I knew. EOS will seperate from the Ethereum blockchain in June 2018. That means you have to register your EOS tokens. And there are a few ways to do that. I did it on MyEtherWallet. There is a recipe for doing it on the Exodus-wallet as well.

What I suggest is to start with this thread on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/eos/comments/7jarzj/how_to_registerclaim_your_eos_tokens_before_june/

I used THIS video as a tutorial, and it worked like a charm.

 

So basically, make sure you have your EOS on a MEW-wallet. I used a dedicated wallet where I just keep my EOS + some ETH for transaction fees. So just chose the number 3 or 4 wallet address on your ledger.

Then follow the tutorial.

After that, you can check if it worked by doing this;

• select existing contract
• chose EOS contribution
• Press Access
• Select Keys
• Paste your ETH-address

And now the EOS contribution address that you generated when you followed the tutorial shows up. This means everything is OK.

Note: Personally, I think this is a little bit clumsy of EOS. I'm more than average when it comes to follow up on stuff, but when did EOS plan to take this seriously and inform people? Sure, there is info on it WHEN you know and start googling. But, there is no info on the EOS website. And no easy accessable tutorials made by then. I have to point some critique towards them for not being more vocal about this. It's soon March, and you're only 4,5 months away from worthless EOS-tokens.

Sure, we have a responsibility ourselves, and as a capitalist and free market promoter, that responsibility is something I think is important for us have. It helps us stay sharp and focused. BUT, we're still at a stage where investors have level up their computer skills quite a bit. For many of us using MEW feels like you're a hacker. And doing these contracts and so on is not always easy. One error and you're fucked.

And while some complicated steps is OK in such an early phase of the space (the price we pay to be early is that we all have to learn from the ground up. In a few years it will be much easier for people to do these kinds of things. And we will look back and go..remember in 2018, when you had to do those things manually? Oh man.), I do however think that the developers should try to help out as much as possible. It's not good for them, or us, if 30% of investors just lose their EOS tokens June 3rd.

Hopefully you read this, and if you've all ready knew and did it - great, if you haven't, do it, and spread the word!