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Thank you, I now have a keystore wallet, and I am connected to Leodex.io which has a nice clean interface, but the Faucet for Arbitrum doesn't seem to be working... I will keep trying it..

if it's not working, you didn't connect Hive. Re-watch the video.

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.

It looks like I can hold a lot of crypto in it, looking at your tutorial and khals video onnthe ama.
Pretty useful.
I am not clear if it is a chrome extension?

no. It's a file that gets downloaded, as I explain in the video

Sorry, I realize that, but I am still wrapping my mind around this diferent framework. I have moved away from desktop wallets when I stopped mining crypto and running masternodes after finding Steemit...

...now with defi I have spent so much time with browser wallets; metamask, brave, trust, coinbase, etc..

... My brain was having trouble completely grasping this is different, not a browser extension wallets. I realize it's a big world, it just talke an adjustment in my thinking.