Exodus Wallet and Dogecoin - Trust, but Verify!

sumatranate (64)in #crytpocurrency • 7 years ago (edited)

I was freaking out! I opened my Exodus wallet it showed that my $200 worth of Dogecoin (about 50,000 coins) had just turned into $100,000 dollars.

I seemed too good to be true. Life Lesson: Trust, but verify!

I want to give the benefit of the doubt to someone (or something, in this case). But I am responsible for and have the right to verify the facts.

Something did not add up right. My gut was telling me to check the facts.

Guess what? There was a problem with an API (application program interface).

This is the message I received from Exodus Support:

That is a bug in the Cryptocompare API. We’ve reached out to Cryptocompare to get it fixed as soon as possible.

So Exodus has two pricing sources:

The default pricing source is cryptocompare.com which Exodus believes to be more accurate, but at present has a bug that highly exaggerates Dogecoin valutations.
The second pricing source is coinmarketcap.com which was added at customers' request.

If you are having the same problem that I had (and you have gotten over your heart attack), then you can follow these steps to change your pricing source from cryptocompare.com to coinmarketcap.com.

For Windows or Linux, check out:
https://exodus.groovehq.com/knowledge_base/topics/how-to-open-the-developer-menu-on-windows-and-linux

For Mac, check out:
support.exodus.io/knowledge_base/topics/how-to-open-the-developer-menu-on-macos

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