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Bitcoin virtual credit card: how to create it

Holytransaction Trade is a new service to create a bitcoin virtual credit card offered by the HolyTransaction wallet.

Holytransaction.trade to create a bitcoin virtual credit card

You would think that Holytransaction.trade is a service that can be found anywhere on the web to sell and buy bitcoins.

This is not true, because HolyTransaction.Trade allows you to do much more, such as creating a bitcoin virtual credit card, convert bitcoin into fiat currencies and pick them up in an HalCash ATM, etc.

If you have some digital currencies you can create a bitcoin virtual credit card to buy everything you want online.

So, HolyTransaction Trade is not only a platform where you can convert bitcoin into dollars or euro, but also vice versa: in Mexico, Greece and Spain you can convert fiat into bitcoins via PayNet, EasyPay and Teleingreso.

Also, among the options you can create a bitcoin virtual credit card.

This service is available and works in less than 10 minutes and it is also available on Google Play.

Please note that when you create a virtual credit card the 2% from the total value will be withheld as fees.

To use this service you must be either registered on Entropay.com or register after completing the process.

So if you need liquidity, you may want to transfer your bitcoin into a virtual credit card.

Follow these steps to understand how to create your bitcoin virtual credit card with HolyTransaction.Trade.

  1. In the first column on the right you need to select “Bitcoin” as an input and “Virtual Bank Card” on the left as the “output”. Then click on “Continue”.
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  2. Select the amount and your email address to receive the virtual card’s information. 3
  3. In the following page, you’ll find an address on the bottom right, below the “Pay To”. 4
  4. Send your the exact amount you selected before to that address, so enter on your favorite wallet and do a transaction with that address as a recipient. You can transfer max 250 euro for each email address. 5
  5. Create or login to your account on EntroPay. You’ll receive all the info you need via email. 
  6. Once the transaction is validated and written on the blockchain, within the next ten minutes the amount you selected will be sent to the beneficiary bitcoin virtual credit card.
  7. Operation Completed!
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This is just one of the services available on the HolyTransaction.Trade platform to convert and send bitcoin worldwide.

 

 

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Amelia Tomasicchio

How to convert bitcoin into euro in a few steps

How does funding for Holytransactions work?

HolyTransaction is a multi-currency wallet that allows you to store, send, receive, and exchange numerous cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. To utilize HolyTransaction, you must first fund your wallet with the cryptocurrency of your choice.

You may fund your HolyTransaction wallet in two ways:

Depositing cryptocurrency: You can deposit cryptocurrency into your HolyTransaction wallet by sending it from another wallet or exchange. To do so, go to your HolyTransaction account’s “Wallet” section and select the cryptocurrency you want to deposit. Finally, select “Deposit” to obtain the wallet address for the desired coin. Copy this address and use it to transfer funds from another wallet or exchange to your HolyTransaction wallet.

Bank Transfer: To do so, go to your HolyTransaction account’s “Deposit” section and select the currency you want to deposit. Finally, select “Bank Transfer” and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the transfer. You must give personal information such as your name, address, and bank account information.

How to convert Bitcoin into Euro using HolyTransaction:

  1. Go to the HolyTransaction website at https://holytransaction.com/ and log in to your account. If you don’t have an account, you can sign up for one by clicking on the “Sign up” button on the top right corner of the website and filling in the required details.
  2. Once you’re logged in, click on the “Wallet” button on the top left corner of the website. This will take you to your wallet page where you can see your Bitcoin balance.
  3. Click on the “Send” button next to your Bitcoin balance. This will take you to the “Send Bitcoin” page.
  4. In the “Send Bitcoin” page, enter the amount of Bitcoin you want to convert into Euro in the “Amount” field. You can also select the currency you want to convert your Bitcoin into by clicking on the “Currency” dropdown menu and selecting Euro.
  5. Next, enter the recipient’s wallet address in the “To” field. If you’re not sure about the recipient’s wallet address, you can click on the “Address Book” button to select an address from your saved addresses.
  6. Review the transaction details to make sure everything is correct, including the amount, recipient’s address, and currency conversion rate.
  7. Once you’re ready to complete the transaction, click on the “Send” button. HolyTransaction will deduct the Bitcoin from your wallet and convert it into Euro at the current exchange rate.
  8. Your Euro balance will now be visible in your HolyTransaction wallet. You can use this balance to send Euro to other wallets or withdraw it to your bank account.

That’s it! You’ve successfully converted your Bitcoin into Euro using HolyTransaction.

Open your free digital wallet here to store your cryptocurrencies in a safe place.

Amelia Tomasicchio

US Federal Reserve studies Blockchain

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The US Federal Reserve studies Blockchain as “this may represent the most significant development in many years in payments, clearing, and settlement.”

According to governor Lael Brainard, in fact, this technology could be very disruptive for the financial system.

During her speech at the Institute of International Finance in Washington, D.C., she explained that the Federal Reserve studies Blockchain to study and test the technology for a next-generation payment and settlement system.

“We are paying close attention to distributed ledger technology, or blockchain, recognizing this may represent the most significant development in many years in payments, clearing, and settlement.”

Brainard’s speech came a week after Janet Yellen commented that the distributed ledger could have a “significant impact” on the fintech industry. Also, she explained that the central bank is “trying to understand digital currencies and other blockchain applications”.

During her speech, Brainard commented on the various use cases of the blockchain in financial field, as well as talked about the potential risks.

“Like many new financial technologies, distributed ledgers could ameliorate or exacerbate traditional financial risks,” she explained.

Federal Reserve studies blockchain: a whitepaper will be published soon

Also, Brainard said that the Federal Reserve will publish a whitepaper on the blockchain by the end of this year.

Furthermore, the central bank will continue to study and discuss the tech with both private and public sector stakeholders.

To read more about Federal Reserve involvment in the fintech field, click here. 

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Amelia Tomasicchio
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Twitter, Bitstamp, European Parliament: Monthly Recap about Bitcoin

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Welcome to HolyTransaction’s fifth monthly recap for the 2016! Thanks for this month together. 
April has been marked by continued interest in bitcoin technology from all around the world; during that time, the bitcoin price rose from a high of $469.31 on April 21st to a low of $435.08 on April 28th, according to Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp.

6 amazing pictures about Bitcoin

Bitcoin is the money of Internet and what is the best way to communicate through the web?
Pictures, of course.
Thanks to pictures, in fact, we can communicate things that are very difficult to explain in words. 
So, let’s see the top 6 of the best pictures about Bitcoin.

15 oddest places where Bitcoin is accepted

Nowadays you can buy almost everything with bitcoin.
As well as lots of e-commerce and famous worldwide brand that accept Bitcoin all around the world. 
Also, you will find out there are several other shops where you can buy your favorite items with Bitcoin. 
Click on the title to read the full list of the oddest places where bitcoin is accepted (for several of them you can buy a gift card for bitcoins on gyft.com).

That’s why $400 Bitcoin price is low

Today Daniel Masters, ex trader at JP Morgan, published an interesting article about the bitcoin price on Linkedin. 
In this article, Masters comments the upcoming halving of rewards for the miners and its impact on the current bitcoin price.

Blockchain is the perfect technology according to the European Parliament

During the last week, a European parliament member gave a speech about consumer protection for the latest campaign that aims at realizing new rules related to the blockchain.


How Twitter can teach you everything you need to know about Bitcoin


Twitter is one of the most popular social networks in the world and there are over 307 million people that actively use Twitter.
Also, the greatest part of Bitcoin experts has a Twitter account; and this is a fact.
So, this is why you will find lots of info about Bitcoin on Twitter; you just need to follow the right people and bloggers.

Click on the title to read the full list of influencers you may need to follow on Twitter to deeply understand bitcoin and the blockchain.

Open your free digital wallet here to store your cryptocurrencies in a safe place.

Amelia Tomasicchio

HolyTransaction’s Bitcoin Monthly Roundup of January 2016

Welcome to HolyTransaction’s first monthly recap for the new year of 2016. This past month of January has been marked by all time highs for the year thus far; during that time, the bitcoin price rose from a high of $430.89 on January 1st to a low of $368.49 on January 31st, according to Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp.



Since the news broke about Cryptsy’s disappearence, the exchange has officially put forward their side of the story. Paul Vernon claims that the exchange was hacked years ago, and admits to running a fractional reserve since that date. He even offered a 100 BTC reward for whoever could find the hacker. Community speculation and the piling legal documents against Cryptsy’s founder spell more bad news for the American exchange.



Months ago, Hearn was promoting Bitcoin XT, a hardfork that would have increased the Bitcoin blockchain block size in a brute force manner. The plan wasn’t able to garner community support, and Hearn eventually signed a deal to work with R3. Hearn also cited concerns about “Chinese miners” and the Great Firewall of China and what their involvement in Bitcoin meant for the longevity of the project. He left the Bitcoin community with a strong blog post on Medium, saying: “But despite knowing that Bitcoin could fail all along, the now inescapable conclusion that it has failed still saddens me greatly.” Unfortunately, many in the mainstream media took this as an opportunity to hail the death of Bitcoin; but alas, the death of Bitcoin was (again) greatly exaggerated.



Shaun Bridges, one of the government agents arrested and charged in the aftermath of the Silk Road case, which the agents were instrumental in, has been re-arrested. Bridges was found with packs of packed clothes, money, passports, and other evidence that he was planning to leave the country instead of reporting for his time in jail. There is evidence that Bridges still has Bitcoin stashed elsewhere, and the plot continues to thicken.



In a response to community outcry for better communication from those entrusted with the “original” version of Bitcoin, the Bitcoin Core team launched their social media presence this past month. They are also using popular communications platform Slack to better interface with the community. Interested users can signup at slack.bitcoincore.org to chat about the future of Bitcoin.



Former JP Morgan Chase banker Blythe Masters’ blockchain company, Digital Asset Holdings, has successfully raised $52 million for their project. The company previously bought out such bitcoin startups as Hyperledger and had been raising money through 2015 to bring the blockchain to the mainstream. The company also landed a deal with ASX Ltd., which is Australia’s main exchange operator. The blockchain is going down under, in a good way.


Thank you for reading our newsletter with the previous month’s best Bitcoin articles!

We tweet more cryptocurrency news and insights daily @HolyTransaction

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Amelia Tomasicchio
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Microsoft to Sponsor the Ethereum DΞVCON1 Conference

The Ethereum DevCon1 conference is set to take place on November 9th in London. In a recently published blog post by George Hallam, the Ethereum team announced that Microsoft would be one of the sponsors of the first-of-its-kind event. MIcrosoft and Bitcoin have had a somewhat strong relationship since the American company started accepting it last year. Now, it seems that “Bitcoin 2.0” technology like Ethereum is taking some of the institutional attention away from Bitcoin. Vitalik Buterin, one of the founders of Ethereum, commented on the sponsorship:

DΞVCON1 is very excited to work with Microsoft and we look forward to having them in London.”Microsoft’s head of US Technology Financial Services, Marley Gray, explained more specifically why Microsoft had taken an interest in this international and decentralized technology event:“Microsoft is excited to sponsor and attend Ethereum’s DevCon1. We find the Ethereum blockchain incredibly powerful and look forward to collaborating within the Ethereum Community. We see a future where the combination of Microsoft Azure and Ethereum can enable new innovative platforms like Blockchain-as-a-Service. This will serve as an inflection point to bring blockchain technology to enterprise clientele”.

“Blockchain-as-a-Service” is a new term that we will undoubtedly hear more of in the coming years. Most everyone involved in the technology side of their business is familiar wit Software-as-a-service (SAAS) which has given rise to incredibly large corporations. In contrast, the service that the blockchain provides is removing the need for people and points of failure in the middle and back office. Smart contracts and blockchain-as-a-service obviously go hand in hand. What will be most interesting is if Microsoft’s potential use of Ethereum in their Azure platform is what finally prompts Amazon to get into the decentralized digital currency game. One can only hope.

Ethereum DevCon1 Is Bringing Interesting Companies and People Together… For a Better FutureAlready, it has been confirmed that not only will Microsoft be in attendance, but so will Nick Szabo. That is actually no surprise given that Szabo coined the term “smart contract” many many years ago and has become increasingly vocal on the internet as his pet idea has started to come to fruition. Smart contracts are a large part of Ethereum’s mainstream appeal, though the concept is still in the process of gaining momentum. The future prospects of robots and computers replacing humans for certain types of jobs has always been on the fringe of human imagination. The more you think about smart contracts, the more you realize that such a futuristic world couldn’t exist in a stable state without something like smart contracts. As panelists at the Money20/20 conference stated:

Cryptocurrency is the most natural way for machines to pay machines.

Bitcoin-inspired blockchain technology, of which Ethereum definitely is, has seen a lot of validation lately. Other Bitcoin-inspired blockchain technology like BitShares is also gaining traction, though not in the form of Microsoft sponsorships. Besides the fundraising and actual release of Ethereum’s Frontier alpha and a shaky first few days, the formation of a conference is a milestone that most “altchains” never achieve – not that there was any doubt that Ethereum would make it this far, anyways. After all, even Imogen Heap has even started using Ethereum, why wouldn’t Microsoft be next?

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Satoshi
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BitShares 2.0 – Will Users and Banks Be Using Graphene in the Future?

Graphene, the super material that our computer chips might be made of soon, still isn’t very well known. However, with BitShares 2.0 being called Graphene, the word might become a stable part of your lexicon soon. The BitShares 2.0 has been long anticipated by both the BitShares and cryptocurrency communities. Since its announcement earlier this summer, BitShares has started to restructure themselves in preparation for BitShares 2.0. Though they are adding a lot of functionality, the core stake distribution is not changing at all. In testing, they have been able to sustain 3000+ tx per 3sec block, compared to the 7 transactions per second that the Bitcoin network is theoretically limited to. To reach even larger network sizes, Graphene is tapping into the same future expectations that Bitcoin users expect to keep their network viable: Moore’s Law. The pace of technology is such that eventually just one rented VPS will be able to handle all of the world’s financial transactions.
“We can trade peer to peer anywhere in the world in a few seconds. We’ve got capacity for every existing exchange to become a member of our network, treating their own customers to the combined market depth of all exchanges on a shared transparent ledger.”
Graphene works as an open source toolkit, and the original BitShares team needed this change because they were having to sell BitShares just to keep going. The list of new features include:
Votable Network Parameters, Flexible and Dynamic Access Control, Transferable Account Names, On-Chain Proposed Transactions, a New Full Node/Client Concept, a Referral Program, Recurring and Scheduled Payments, and the addition of new Privatized BitAssets. More information about Graphene and the newest features can be found here.

BitShares Style Decentralization Is What Banks Need

Decentralization provides the BitShare network, and all altcoin networks, with a new type of security that banks do not have – maybe even for functions we traditionally use a bank for. A network that functions by consensus and push transactions instead of pull transactions, is almost a holy grail in the banking industry. It’s no wonder that we’ve seen banks rush to “blockchain” technology. BitShares is confident in their security, they commented:
“It’s impervious to the hacker attacks that even the biggest exchanges have suffered.”
BitShares was one of the first cryptocurrencies to to engage in fiat and asset pegging, which is an angel that banks will certainly be interested in exploring. As we see more and more banks enter the Bitcoin and blockchain space, though, how many of them will realize that BitShares already has what they might need?

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Satoshi
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Gridcoin Wallet joins HolyTransaction Today!

Open HolyTransaction Gridcoin Wallet

All HolyTransaction customers can create new address for Gridcoin wallet and use the easy HolyTransaction Web Wallet to send and receive transactions or to instantly convert them to any 9 supported cryptocurrency.

Just like Bitcoin, you can now:

– Send Gridcoin to your GRC wallet address.
– Receive transactions
– Make instant transactions between HT users
– Set OTP for additional protection

We are really excited to be part of a new community!

About Gridcoin:
Gridcoin is a cryptocurrency that rewards individuals for contributing to computational research in math, science and several other areas of study with their home computer, laptop and android devices.

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Satoshi
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HolyTransaction partners with RibbitRewards to further Blockchain-based rewards programs

HolyTransaction is thrilled to announce its integration with the Blockchain-based coalition rewards platform, RibbitRewards. This partnership represents a year of interaction between our two companies, beginning in 2014, and underscores our desire to continue working together for many years to come.
RibbitRewards is the first coalition rewards program built using Blockchain technology. Their platform allow companies to recognize the loyalty of their customers by awarding points that can be spent, saved, or shared with others. Additionally, RibbitRewards stands prominently out from the crowd as a result of their dedication to philanthropy; a percentage of all RibbitRewards created are donated to charity.
Ribbit.me uses extensive HolyTransaction API to make invoicing and payment processing. It will make life much easier for users with HolyTransaction account and will give ability to get new HolyTransaction account instantly for those who do not have it yet. All of this gives the users seamless experience on both platforms.
HolyTransaction multi-currency wallet users have access to storage for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, Dash, Blackcoin, and Mastercoin (Omni Layer). Today, we add RibbitRewards to this list.
Users will be able to receive, store, and spend their rewards via their HolyTransaction wallet, as well as exchange them instantly with one of our accepted digital currencies, as listed above. Our integration improves the experience of all users across both platforms, and we are dedicated to providing new and exciting experiences for our community and to continuing the proliferation of Blockchain technology.

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Satoshi
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Bitcoin listed on NYSE – Reminiscing

Bitcoin listed on New York Stock Exchange

Look at how far we’ve come.

Four years ago, the world of Bitcoin found me. By most peoples account, this was still very early days. The USD price, seen on a pre-Karpeles Mt.GOX, had recently surpassed it’s All-Time High of One-Dollar. I watched it climb up and kiss $31 over the next two months, before crashing back down to $2. Then $7. Then leveling off at $5. “Well, that’s it.” Said the forums and chat rooms ”Bitcoin is dead. We’ll never see $30 again.”  I was not convinced. Alternative currencies were already a fascination of mine, long before the idea became digital, and something about Bitcoin struck a chord.
I’d spend hours running numbers in my head and on paper, speculating about the possibilities. I made charts predicting price against difficulty, and theorizing just how high we might go after the first Block halving in the far distant future of 2012. You think people look at you like you’re crazy now…imagine what this looked like before anyone outside of a message board had heard the name Bitcoin. Friends politely listened to me exalt the virtues of cryptocurrency, sometimes for hours at a time, before hesitantly urging that I might be involved in a Ponzi scheme. “You don’t understand.” I’d say, “You’re looking at the future. This isn’t going away. It could go as high as $50, or even $100 per coin. It’s only a matter of time. Someday, Bitcoin could even have its own listing on the New York stock exchange.”

 

Fast forward to May 19th, 2015: The New York Stock Exchange has just launched an index for tracking Bitcoin. The feeling is surreal for me, and I’m sure for many of you too. We’ve gone from Alpaca Socks and Servers to an open world of goods and services. We’ve grown from a hand full of passionate nerds into a community of millions. We’ve seen phenomenal highs and crashing lows, but never a slowing of adoption. The resilience of our community is taking hold. It’s not about the price, or volatility. Bitcoin’s success has always been tied to the passion of its community, and it’s only getting bigger. So don’t be afraid to be a little frivolous with your coins sometimes. Go out and buy a street taco or a latte somewhere. Give some coins to your friends. Speculate. Tell everyone. And most importantly, enjoy the moment we’re in right now. The future is bright, and it’s a lot closer than you think.

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Satoshi