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I watched the videos again, think I forgot to click hive, then it all started working.
I made 8 swaps and 4 pools deposits, it all worked fine; fast and the interfaces are clean and simple.
Additionally...
It looks like the Hive to Bitcoin swap is working, but $200 of Hive gets you about $159 worth of Bitcoin due to $41 in fees, so I didn't pull the trigger.
I tried 50$, 100$ and 200$ worth of Hive to swap to Bitcoin are all $41, so I will wait until I have more Hive to swap!

very nice! Sounds like you're having a good time with it

Yes I am enjoying utilizing a concept made reality. I read and wrote about atomic swaps as a safer way to do peer to peer transfers and then Thorchain theory, and then Thorchain wallet protected defi, but it was complicated and took a long time to get from the theory of a few years ago, to the realities of today.
So it's satisfying and exciting.