Today, we are pleased to announce that HolyTransaction is adding support for swapping to Bitcoin on Lightning Network and thus introducing the ability to deposit and withdraw using Lightning Network.
By adding this capability, HolyTransaction is set to revolutionise the speed, cost and security of depositing and withdrawing Bitcoin on to its platform.
Lightning Network is a software stack which sits on top of the Bitcoin blockchain and, as the name implies, ensures faster and cheaper transactions for its users.
Other than super fast speed and lower fees users will notice a new format of address called invoice when they send or receive Bitcoin via the Lightning Network. The team at HolyTransaction reported that the integration has been successful and hassle free.
Lightning Network brings three essential product benefits to the HolyTransaction exchange:
• Instant Payments. With the use of smart contracts security across the network is much higher and because the stack is built ‘on top’ of the Bitcoin network no transaction confirmations are required. This makes instant payments super fast, super secure and, of course, super cheap.
• Scalability. The massive upscale in transactions per second eclipses any traditional legacy payment rail on the market today. Furthermore, payment ‘with click’ becomes a true reality as the need for financial custodians are eliminated.
• Low Cost. Because Lightning Network does not interact directly with legacy Bitcoin infrastructure itself Lightning Network enables transaction with incredibly low fees. This in turn will stimulate economic growth in new and emerging markets.
In real terms this means Bitcoin deposits and withdrawals on HolyTransaction will be much faster and much cheaper when using Lightning Network.
At the time of press average costs for sending a Bitcoin transaction currently stand at around $2 with confirmation times of around 10 minutes. This clearly has limitations. However, a Lightning Network enabled transaction will cost less than $0.01 and take somewhere in the region of 1-3 seconds.
Adopting Lightning Network will make HolyTransaction more attractive for users who wish to send transactions with added security at much lower cost and super fast speed. HolyTransaction is happy to report that Lightning Network has been integrated for both desktop and mobile application versions.
Lightning Network was envisioned in 2015 and has seen significant growth throughout 2021 which has lead to it being regarded as the most popular layer 2 scaling solution on the market for Bitcoin today. With continued adoption Lightning Network may just help to finally realise the original Bitcoin goal of providing a scalable, fast and cheap financial payments network to the world.
The team at HolyTransaction believe the adoption of the Lightning Network is the logical step in the development of the platform. Lightning Network adoption will enable HolyTransaction to continue to provide a first class crypto trading experience and offer competitive fees with super fast finality times.
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You can now leverage your ADA to help decentralize the Cardano network while earning financial rewards. Staking ADA has become much easier with HolyTransaction!
Key advantages to staking with HolyTransaction:
Navigate to Staking inside your HolyTransaction account and follow the provided instructions.
What is Cardano’s Proof-of-Stake (POS)?
In contrast to the proof-of-work consensus mechanism that Bitcoin uses, some cryptocurrencies use an alternative model for consensus called proof-of-stake. So instead of miners creating new coins and verifying transactions as in the proof-of-work model, you have what are called stakeholders. Stakeholders are rewarded for delegating their ADA to stake pools that are managing block production.
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Today, we are pleased to announce that HolyTransaction Wallet is adding support for swapping L-BTC and thus introducing the ability to deposit and withdraw bitcoin using Liquid Network.
Bitcoin on the Liquid Network, or L-BTC, is verifiably backed 1:1 by bitcoins on the mainchain as Liquid is a federated sidechain between bitcoin exchanges and market makers. Once the coins are transferred from BTC to L-BTC, HolyTransaction users can take advantage of the massive speed and increased security features.
Why is Liquid support such a big deal?
Liquid Network is capable of operating ten times faster than Bitcoin’s own network, which opens up a world of possibilities for the users, particularly when it comes to the speed, faster transactions, and lower costs of making payments. Imagine having to only wait for one minute for your transaction to be processed, as opposed to at least 10 minutes, which is what Bitcoin’s blockchain requires. That is what Liquid Network offers, and what customers of HolyTransaction will now have the ability to do from within their wallet.
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Decentralized finance is quite literally taking the entire blockchain industry by storm.
After a relatively slow buildup over the past few years, the spotlight has well and truly fallen on the cryptocurrency space’s ability to do what traditional finance does — but better.
HolyTransaction, the world’s most trusted cryptocurrency web wallet, is making access to DeFi solutions available to all of its users starting now.
How? HolyTransaction developers have integrated DeFi savings accounts for stablecoins into HolyTransaction web wallets.
If the whole decentralized finance thing is new to you, and you’re having trouble understanding the importance of cryptocurrency savings accounts with stablecoins, then read on!
Blockchain has promised to do a lot over the years.
However, at the end of the day, its first and best use case going back to the invention of Bitcoin is, and has always been, money.
If you’re looking for a one-liner, it’s this:
Cryptocurrencies do it better.
So, why shouldn’t cryptocurrencies one-up the traditional financial industry?
Decentralized finance refers to blockchain-based protocols that enable peer-to-peer financial solutions like loans and, yes, savings accounts. Anything the traditional financial industry offers via institutions like banks, you will soon be doing in a decentralized manner without third parties at all.
The truly clutch tool in the development of the #DeFi industry has been the stablecoin, a workhorse digital asset used to minimize value volatility by pinning a cryptocurrency’s worth to an outside asset.
Some stablecoins, like Tether (USDT), pin their value to government currencies such as the US dollar. To maintain value, $1 is stored in a reserve for every 1 USDT circulating in the open market.
Other stablecoins peg their value to assets like gold, oil, and electricity.
Today, stablecoins are gaining immense popularity as digitally-native alternatives to slow, centralized, and costly to use fiat currencies like the EUR, RUB, USD, and YEN.
When using traditional banking savings account solutions, you’ve probably noticed that APY rates are pretty low.
Even so-called high yield accounts don’t yield much with limits as low as 0.5%.
Decentralized finance is changing that. By removing third parties from banking scenarios, you can often earn as much as 3% APY by keeping your stablecoins in an interest-generating crypto savings account.
The great news is HolyTransaction has integrated such interest-earning features directly into its trusted cryptocurrency web wallets.
With HolyTransaction, there is no need to download, install, or otherwise figure out another piece of software.
Instead, you can use your HolyTransaction cryptocurrency web wallet directly via the web, allowing you to get started generating rewards on your stablecoins right away.
If you’re concerned about a learning curve of some kind — worry not.
Using a DeFi savings account is the same as using a basic cryptocurrency wallet. Just deposit your stablecoins, click on “stake” and you’re good to go — the longer you store them, the more they yield in return.
Want to get started today? Jump over to HolyTransaction to quickly create an account and start saving.
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PIVX is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that stands for “Private Instant Verified Transaction“. It is a fork of another cryptocurrency, Dash. Like Dash, PIVX is also used proof of stake for consensus. This means that there are opportunities for earning PIVX just by owning PIVX. This contribution to the network helps fund the verification of transactions and the creation of new PIVX coins. You can think of this as earning interest on your coin or as a dividend on your investment.
HolyTransaction.com is excited to present to you the launch of our new staking service. You can now leverage Proof of Stake (POS) holdings to safeguard crypto networks while earning financial rewards. Staking PIVX has become much easier with HolyTransaction!
The first step is to register on HolyTransaction.com to get your PIVX web wallet. The official PIVX wallet is available for Windows, macOS, as well as Linux. Android and iOS versions are also available, but these versions do not yet include staking functionality.
After accessing the HolyTransaction wallet, you must wait for your PIVX deposit to reach the minimum number of confirmations for the synchronization to finish. If you move your PIVX in staking before the next rewards distribution is done, your wallet will receive less rewards according to the mininum PIVX held in that time frame.
Once the PIVX address on Holtransaction has received the transaction, you will start staking yourself some PIVX. Your coins must have at least 101 confirmations. These coins are referred to as mintable coins. The number of confirmations on your transaction can be viewed in the history of your account. Once your coins are mintable, you will then be able to stake them and start receiving POS rewards, you can see your rewards in History -> Distributions. Staking can sometimes take as long as 24h to begin once all the prerequisites are met. If staking does not begin after some days, you should wait until you start minting blocks in your wallet.
The more PIVX you stake, the more rewards you get. If you have over 10,000 PIVX, this qualifies you as a masternode. This allows you some say in how the PIVX network operates and also qualifies you to receive additional rewards. Masternodes can earn up to 10% of their stake.
You can stake your coin without being online 24/7, but you will not be eligible for staking rewards while your system is offline. Unlike some other proof of stake coins, PIVX does not consider the age of the coins or the amount of time they have been staked. PIVX only considers is your PIVX balance.
HolyTransaction staking wallet makes it much more user-friendly to stake your POS cryptocurrencies. PIVX has great passive income potential, especially for those who hold over 1000 PIVX, this designation greatly increases the rewards you receive. To begin staking PIVX start by depositing your coins in your HolyTransaction Wallet.
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Gridcoin is a cryptocurrency with ambitions of advancing scientific research. It was originally a simple hybrid of proof of work and proof of stake but now has developed its own custom mechanism blending elements of the two. New coins are created using Proof of Stake, but the number of new coins created depends on how much processing power was used for BOINC.
HolyTransaction Wallet is excited to present to you the launch of our new staking service. You can now leverage Proof of Stake (POS) holdings to safeguard crypto networks while earning financial rewards. Staking GRC has become much easier with HolyTransaction!
According to the PoR mechanism, If a node contributing its hash power to a project that has been whitelisted on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure of Network Computing (BOINC), that node will receive GRC coins corresponding proportionally with the amount of the work done by the node. The BOINC list contains projects of scientific importance that require a supercomputer but don’t have access to one. Of these projects, Gridcoin users vote on a subset of them to be whitelisted for contributions of computing power. Gridcoin, therefore, gives people all over the world the ability to contribute computing power to any of these projects and contribute to scientific research. You can also generate income by running Gridcoin in what the Gridcoin project calls “investor-only mode.”
Investor-only mode is what the Gridcoin project calls it when you setup earns proof of stake interest as opposed to the DPOR (proof of research) payments that “crunchers”—those who contribute computing power receive. You will only need to install the Gridcoin client and will not need the BOINC client.
The first step to setting up a Gridcoin client for investor-only mode is to install the Gridcoin Research client. The client is available for Windows, macOS, and several flavors of Linux including Debian, Arch Linux, OpenSUSE, and Fedora. Once the client has been installed, you will want to sync with the Gridcoin blockchain. This can take between several hours to a couple of days, depending on your internet speed. A green check on the connection bar indicates that the synchronization is complete. At that point, you can unlock your wallet for “staking only.” It can take up to 16 hours for the staking to begin. Running the Gridcoin client at all times maximizes your potential for income. Anytime the client is offline, you could miss an opportunity to mint a block.
The higher the balance you have, the higher the chances that you will get to “stake” a block. This is only a result of the fact that a higher balance gives you more chance to mint Pos blocks and thus you get a payout more often. While you can theoretically stake with any number of coins, you can only reliably stake with at least 2000 coins and the Gridcoin project itself recommends at least 5,000. The miners who contribute computing power to these projects come in two varieties—solo and pool. Pool miners earn research rewards whether they stake or not, but solo miners must stake in order to get paid.
Gridcoin provides a way to contribute to important scientific research and earn passive income while doing so. Even those who only stake coins and don’t provide actual computing power to these projects contribute by securing the network and helping the Gridcoin ecosystem. All you need to start staking Gridcoin is to deposit GRC in your HolyTransaction account.
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Blackcoin is a proof of stake-based coin. Blackcoin actually started out in life as a proof of work cryptocurrency but became a proof of stake coin after the 10,000th block was mined. Blackcoin claims in its whitepaper that it was the first cryptocurrency to use a pure proof-of-stake-based protocol on Bitcoin code. Blackcoin provides many of the same features as other cryptocurrencies, including decentralization and a high degree of transparency. It also offers great opportunities for passive income for staking your coins.
HolyTransaction Wallet is excited to present to you the launch of our new staking service. You can now leverage Proof of Stake (POS) holdings to safeguard crypto networks while earning financial rewards. Staking BLK has become much easier with HolyTransaction!
The process of staking is initiated by not moving your BLK for at least a period of 8 hours while keeping your node syncronized with the Blackcoin network. Your earnings are proportional to the number of coins that you have—the more coins you have, the more you earn. The amount of time you keep your wallet open for staking also has an effect on your block rewards.
Blackcoin has improved its block time from 60 to 64 seconds. Blackcoin had previously used the scrypt protocol for its hashing algorithm, but this was changed to SHA256d. Blackcoin’s reliance on proof of stake gives it an edge in performance over many proof of work cryptocurrencies. When it comes to retail applications, where transactions cannot take an hour to fully confirm as with Bitcoin, proof of stake cryptocurrencies like Blackcoin are better suited for this role.
Staking your Blackcoin will earn you a reward of between 1% and 8% of the total amount of coins held in your wallet for one year. You just need to deposit BLK in your HolyTransaction account. Wait for 24h to start staking Blackcoin and visit History -> Distributions to see your POS rewards.
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Bitcoin and many other early cryptocurrencies use a consensus model known as proof of work. This requires powerful computers to perform cryptographic problems that verify transactions on a blockchain. Peercoin originated an alternative to this that is used in many cryptocurrencies.
Peercoin introduced the concept of proof of stake, an alternative to the proof of work consensus model. In its initial stages, proof of work played a large part in the consensus model since it was a fork of Bitcoin. But the original proof of work-dominated model has almost fully given way to proof of stake. This is more environmentally friendly, removes the need for purchasing expensive mining equipment and allows transactions to be performed a lot more quickly than on proof of work blockchains.
HolyTransaction Wallet is excited to present to you the launch of our new staking service. You can now leverage Proof of Stake (POS) holdings to safeguard crypto networks while earning financial rewards. Staking PPC has become much easier with HolyTransaction!
This act of generating a new block is called minting, however staking is a more popular term today. In Peercoin’s implementation of proof of stake, each node tries to find a new block each second. If the block is valid and backed by sufficient coinage (coins*days), it is accepted by the network. Nodes are only eligible to find new blocks when their coins have been in a wallet for 30 days. Their odds of finding valid blocks go up with the age of the coin until it reaches 90 days, at which point the probability is maxed out. Once a node finds a new block, new PPC are then minted and, for each new block, that node gets a block minting reward. After a new block has been minted, the age of the coins in the node’s address that are involved in the minting is reset. The address will then not be eligible to be chosen based on those particular coins until 30 days have passed. Staking your Peercoin assets does lock them up from being spent or moved. However, you can sell or spend the PPC at any time—you will just lose the opportunity to mint new blocks.
Why stake Peercoin and not other cryptocurrencies? The return on staking is lower with Peercoin than with most other proof of stake cryptocurrencies. Vast majority of economic studies shows that ideal inflation is 2-3%. However, Peercoin is serious about keeping inflation low, currently at 3.33%. Peercoin’s reliance on proof of stake means that it should not suffer from the same scalability problems that have plagued proof of work platforms like Bitcoin. This means quicker transaction times and an overall better experience for retail and vending applications—which means great potential for the coin’s success in the future. You can learn more about its ecosystem in the Peercoin Primer video series.
Peercoin was the originator of proof of stake in its whitepaper, even though it took some time for proof of stake to actually make its way into widespread use on the blockchain. Staking Peercoin and its minting process presents a great opportunity to earn coin that will, in turn, earn you more coin. All you need is just to deposit PPC to start staking on your HolyTransaction wallet.
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You might be familiar with mining in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, where expensive energy-intensive equipment works to generate blocks. However, there is an alternative to this model that doesn’t require the massive energy costs of mining or equipment. Staking coins can generate passive income without such headaches. Some examples of coins which rely on proof of stake include Peercoin, Blackcoin, Gridcoin and Pivx.
HolyTransaction is excited to present to you the launch of our new staking service. You can now leverage Proof of Stake (POS) holdings to safeguard crypto networks while earning financial rewards. Staking PPC, BLK, GRC, and PIVX has become much easier with HolyTransaction! Starting the 1st of September 2020 customers with balances in those cryptocurrencies will begin to receive their rewards distributions.
HolyTransaction Staking Wallet lets you not only stake coins, but also trade them, buy new ones, or sell the ones you have for fiat.
This makes it rather easy to exchange your rewards earned through staking, withdraw the money, and use it in the real world.
Of course, you can always just keep it and increase the amount you have for staking, which will help you earn more in the long-term.
In contrast to the proof-of-work consensus mechanism that Bitcoin uses, some cryptocurrencies use an alternative model for consensus called proof-of-stake. So instead of miners creating new coins and verifying transactions as in the proof-of-work model, you have what are called forgers creating new coins and performing verification of transactions in the proof-of-stake model. These forgers are chosen in a variety of ways from a pool of coin holders who have staked their coins. The selection criteria vary depending on the cryptocurrency, but the most typical ways are a random selection or how long the coin holder has held the coin. When a forger gets chosen, they can then create new blocks and verify transactions.
The most immediate benefit of staking coins is that you earn income for doing so. In comparison with proof of work schemes, proof of stake removes the need for expensive equipment to perform all the proofs of work that validate transactions. Such equipment that is used to mine coins on a proof of work blockchain would often soon depreciate as more advanced hardware came out. Staking your coins does not come with this problem. Blockchains which used proof of stake for consensus are greener as they do not require the massive amounts of electrical resources to perform the calculations needed by proof of work schemes. Finally, it is simply just fairer for users who have invested in the cryptocurrency to reap the benefits of verifying transactions on its network.
The only real drawback to staking coins is that the coins can be unavailable while they are staked. This isn’t an issue when the coin is gaining value, but if the coin loses value you can be locked in for the ride. Some cryptocurrencies allow you to stake your coins even if they are in a cold (or offline) wallet. This means that the coins are not connected to the internet at all times. This is more secure, however, some coins require that your coins must be in a hot wallet, which is a wallet that is always connected to the Internet.
Staking coins is a great way to earn passive income, avoiding the exorbitant cost of the hardware required for mining, which quickly becomes obsolete. Staking coins is more environmentally friendly as it does not rely on the massive amounts of electricity needed to power mining rigs. Instead of rewarding those who invest in the expensive hardware needed to verify transactions, cryptocurrency projects which rely on proof of stake reward those who invest in the coins themselves. This results in a fairer system where anyone can earn passive income. HolyTransaction is a very user-friendly wallet all you need is just to deposit for staking to commence.
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Sending and receiving ADA with Cardano‘s Byron and Shelley-era addresses is available on HolyTransaction now.
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