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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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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(CoinTelegraph) Blackcoin is one of the most
exciting altcoins in the cryptospace right now. It has a 30 second
confirmation time, large market cap, their BlackHalo project is keeping
it in the forefront of the Bitcoin 2.0 space and they seem to be the
only team to get altmining pools done in a responsible way that doesn’t
harm other coins.
It is also proof-of-stake based, with its proof-of-work mining period long over. While, as the team and the white paper is quick to point out,
proof-of-stake has been secure enough to prevent any serious security
breaches to its 15 – 20 million dollar market (not to mention the
markets of other proof-of-stake coins like NXTCoin, Peercoin and
Novacoin) there have been some concerns voiced by the community.
Rather than waiting to see if their coin can withstand a serious
attack when potentially hundreds of millions of dollars are on the line
(assuming Blackcoin continues to grow) the developers are taking a
proactive approach and plugging up those potential vulnerabilities now.
Proof-of-stake protocol v2 ditches the somewhat controversial Coinage
system completely. Coinage is a system that has only coins, which have
been moved into a wallet recently (after thirty days but less than
ninety days), accruing interest in the minting process. This system was
designed to encourage transactions and therefore spending. However, it
resulted in a less secure system as nodes were able to gain enough
influence over the system to perform a double spend. There was also an
issue where honest nodes would only remain on while their coins were
gaining interest. More nodes equates to a more secure network, so the
new system is designed to encourage nodes to participate at all times by
not deactivating minting on coins.
Adjustments have also been made to stop pre-computations of
proof-of-stake. Proof-of-stake pre-computations had attackers matching
or exceeding the network hashrates for short amount of times and
rewriting the blockchain to double spend coins they do not yet have.
Blackcoin’s new system addresses this by changing the stake modifier at
every modifier interval.
Blackcoin will also be switching from Scrypt to SHA256d because
Scrypt doesn’t offer any advantages in a proof-of-stake system and since
Blackcoin’s proof-of-work phase is over, it is no longer needed.
The team behind Blackcoin is dedicated, talented and apparently has a
real knack for solving problems. Steve McKie, Project Manager for the
Blackcoin Development team and representative of the Blackcoin
Foundation stated:
“With PoS Protocol V2.0, we wanted to plug any searing
vulnerabilities that may have existed in the protocols previous version
that were left over from previous attempts at PoS (Peercoin, NovaCoin).
The main developer of the protocol, Rat 4 (Pavel Vasin) has been hard at
work making sure that BlackCoin users and merchants are as protected as
possible from malicious attacks on the network”
In the same vein, Blackcoin is switching its Timestamp rules from
ones that mirrored Bitcoin’s to one that is designed to take advantage
of the proof-of-stake system. You can see the differences below:
Bitcoin
Past limit: median time of last 11 blocks
Future limit: +2 hours
Granularity: 1 second
Expected block time: 10 minutes
Blackcoin (New rules)
Past limit: time of last block
Future limit: +15 seconds
Granularity: 16 seconds
Expected block time: 64 seconds
McKie and the team have big aspirations for Blackcoin and believe
that the proof-of-stake system will prove to be more effective.
“Proof-of-stake, we believe, will be the leading protocol going forward
in regards to security and overall energy efficiency,” they said.
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