I started two weeks ago not really understanding what a wallet even was. The first thing I did was generate a keypair and it just looked like a long random address. I didn't even know you could lose access if you lost the file. That felt scary and also kind of cool. Then I learned about lamports and how everything on Solana is actually in those tiny units, not SOL. I kept mixing them up but multiplying and dividing by a billion slowly started to make sense.
The best part was in Day 010 when I I built a simple web page that showed my wallet balance from devnet. It felt amazing to see my own address and some transactions right there in a browser. I still don't fully understand some things, like how same address can be queried on both devnet and mainnet, but I'm okay with that and working on figuring it out. Two weeks ago I had no idea what Solana was, and now I can write small scripts and read data from the chain. That feels like progress.
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