Ever since i had been in this space, i have only been used to bitcoin, ethereum, NEO, waves, tokens that use their platform and some other very common coins, but just this week was my first time of transacting fully on XLM platform.
I got a token that uses the platform of Stellar (XLM) and i was able to trade the token into XLM on their decentralized exchange.
My mistake came in when i was about to transfer the XLM, to be traded into BTC on another exchange.
I thought the process of transfer would be the one i had been used to, not knowing that i was supposed to include a "MEMO".
I eventually transferred it, waited for hour, but found nothing.
I was bothered.
It was in that process i got to know that memo was to be included. That was my mistake.
I admitted i had made the mistake.
The lesson i learnt is to always study every thing first (both new and old, because old things can still change), before jumping into it.
This mistake i have made up my mind to never repeat again.
I AM SHARING THIS FOR YOU TO LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES AND FROM YOURS.
Thanks for your audience.
Since you mentioned Hitbtc, I also did some mistakes on that trading platform myself. I guess everyone here has made mistakes during their journey on crypto trading, but its how we manage to go over that humps and totally forgot that mistakes and learn from it. At least the OP has good intentions so that those newbies would be careful on dealing with that coins. That's why this community is built, to share our journey even that small mistakes of ours so that together we can learn from them.