Hey guys, I had high hopes for the Jaxx wallet (despite warnings about them being hacked a few months ago, I've been assured the Android version is relatively safe.)
However, the two main reasons I set up Jaxx were 1. So that I would easily buy ICN by ShapeShift either BTC or ETH to ICN using the ShapeShift function. This is because Kraken doesn't allow me to buy. And 2. because Jaxx supported Bitcoin Cash and assured me that if I moved my BTC to Jaxx before the fork I could access my BCH.
Now it's 8/7 and there is still no BCH wallet on Jaxx and no sign of where my BCH coins are. Their last update was many days ago. This does not bode well for my confidence in this product.
The other thing is, I am able to ShapeShift any coin to any other coin EXCEPT ICN. ICN is down right now and presents a good buying opportunity. I already tried to ShapeShift my BTC into ICN a couple of days ago and it won't work. The ShapeShift button is supposed to turn bright blue when it's ready and able to work. If you pick ICN it doesn't work. So other people on Reddit are having the same issue and there's been some discussion there about how to solve this. One thing they said was that a conversion from BTC to ICN requires a bit of ETH for "gas" to power the transaction (anyone care to explain "gas" to me?) So I decided to convert my BTC to ETH on Jaxx and that way there will be plenty of ETH to do the transaction to ICN. Nope. I tried converting ETH to ICN yesterday and today and it's still not working.
This just isn't going to work. If the one thing I got the Jaxx wallet to do isn't working at the critical time when ICN is cheap then its usefulness is nearly nil to me. And still being without my BCH after all this time is super annoying. I mean the the good thing is BCH didn't just keep falling off a cliff and now it actually seems to be bouncing. But what if I had wanted my BCH right away?