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Bitcoin Gifts for Christmas? Here some ideas

Are you ready for Christmas? Do you want to buy some Bitcoin gifts for you friends and parents?

When Christmas is approaching, every year begins the race for the perfect gift, but unfortunately presents get harder to think. The choice narrows every year, especially if you make a gift to the same people every year.

After the usual shower gel, socks and hats, this year you can give (and maybe even receive) some original Bitcoin gifts. Also, if you don’t like to go out for shopping and deal with the Christmas chaos, you can buy these gifts directly from your home.

Here you can find a wide range of gifts you can make using bitcoin or other digital currencies.

  1. OpenBaazar: this Bitcoin marketplace allows you to buy several kinds of gifts, including pc games, pins, t-shirts and more. Your order will be shipped to your home address, but shipment costs are quite expensive.
  2. Thanks to Purse, you now buy everything you need from Amazon but using Bitcoin. 
  3. For coffee lovers, you can decide to visit Bitcoin Coffee Store that delivers everywhere in the world.

 

That said, if you really want to give your friends and parents an original gift, what about a Bitcoin wallet?

I mean, our wallet is free, of course, and you can open one on HolyTransaction, deposit the amount you want give your friends and family as a present, so they will also learn how to use bitcoin.

You just have to visit our website herecreate an account, deposit the bitcoin amount you decide and give these original Bitcoin gifts to your friends.

Maybe you can print out the wallet access key and place it in a beautiful colored envelope under the Christmas tree.

Your lucky recipient will receive a unique, original and useful gift, so he will be aware of the bitcoin world and increase his fintech skills while he spents his new money.

Also, this will also be a good way to spread the use and understanding of bitcoin.

What are you waiting for? Open a new free wallet on HolyTransaction.com.

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

Amelia Tomasicchio
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Black Friday Bitcoin: Happy Shopping!

Bitcoin Black Friday

Today Europe and America celebrate the well-known Black Friday, a special day when you can buy everything you need at a special price.

But we, in the Bitcoin World, want to celebrate our Black Friday Bitcoin, so let’s read this article and happy shopping with digital currencies.

As you might know, thanks to Purse.io  you can buy from Amazon in Bitcoin. And today you can make very big deals, as Amazon partecipates to the Black Friday with special discounts.

Another good online shop where you can exploit the Black Friday Bitcoin is Bitcoin Black Friday. Here you can buy softwares, services, art, gifts, apparel and more.

Online you can find a lots of oddest places where you can use bitcoin, expecially today.

OpenBaazar and Black Friday Bitcoin

A few months ago I wrote an article about a new shopping platform called OpenBazaar where you can buy everything you are looking for with Bitcoin.

Here you can read a step-by-step guide to understand how to do shopping with this tool.

HolyTransaction Wallet Service

Of course, if you want to start using Bitcoin to do some shopping you need a web wallet where you can store your own digital currencies.

HolyTransaction is a multicurrency wallet where you can store not only Bitcoin, but also Ether, Dash, Dogecoin, Litecoin, Peercoin, Tether and all the most important cryptocurrencies in the world.

Each digital currency has its own address, but all of them has a unique access. So you need to remember just one username and password to login.

To open you wallet, you just need an email address. No other data required, so high privacy provided.

It is easy and it works right from our website, without any software downloads required.

Click here to open your HolyTransaction wallet for free.

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

Amelia Tomasicchio
Blockchain Revolutionizing Banking

Central Bank of Canada revealed the digital Cad coin

Is Cad Coin the future for Canada?

Yesterday the Central Bank of Canada announced its new project: Cad coin, or the digital version of the Canadian dollar based on the blockchain.
Cad coin is just a part of a greater study about the blockchain, called “Project Jasper”, according to The Financial Times.
Bank of Canada is not the only bank involved: in fact, other important banks such as Bank of Montreal, CIBC, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank and TD Bank are participating to this innovative project.
As you can read on a Forbes post, Bank of Canada is doing tests on a system that allows people to give their cash to the bank that will convert it into Cad coin.

Banks: in love with the Blockchain?

During the last months, we read about several bank projects related to the blockchain and digital currencies.
“The development of modern financial markets is inseparable from the development of financial technology”, said Bank of Russia’s deputy chairman Olga Skorobogatova.
Are these news the proof that banks love blockchain applications or is it just fear?

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

Amelia Tomasicchio

Why the Ethereum DAO collapse is good for the cryptocurrency

The news of the Ethereum DAO hacker attack is riding high and of course it brings lots of damages for the ethereum investors who stored about $150m of the cryptocurrency.

However, it is always a good behavior to understand and see the other side of the coin, we would say.
In fact, any negative event can allow to have a better environment and more secure technologies.
A similar thing happened with the Mt Gox disaster, when we learned that an exchange must be built with more care and attention.
As Matthew Spoke, co-founder and CEO of blockchain startup Nuco, explained on Coindesk.
“the DAO attack will likely be reversed, as per Vitalik’s proposal; owners of TDT will be able to retrieve their ETH after the proposed hard fork; The DAO will be emptied of its investments; and future distributed autonomous organizations will learn from the lessons”.

Ethereum DAO: what happened?

On June 17th, an unknown hacker (or a group of hackers) stole $60m in Ethereum coins from the DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization that used the Ethereum Blockchain to leverage smart contracts and to provide a platform where people can vote and fund projects.
Previously last week the DAO experienced another issue but it was fixed soon by the open-source community and the Etheruem DAO structure and problem-solving techniques.

Universal Wallet

If you want to have a safe and secure wallet to store your Ethereum, you should visit HolyTransaction. 
Here you can store your Ethereum, but also several other digital currencies including Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin and more.

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

Amelia Tomasicchio
Bitcoin Rise: will it continue in the future days?

Bitcoin Rise: will it continue in the future days?

Bitcoin Rise: will it keep growing?

It is not a news that the Bitcoin rise very fast during the last few weeks, reaching a high of $735 today.
But the real question everybody is asking is: will Bitcoin keep growing?
After a two years high, on Wednesday the bitcoin price fell, but it was only temporary and now the price is rising again.
As we tried to explain, there are a few reasons why Bitcoin is increasing its value: at least 5 reasons that you can read here.

Volatility?

Bitcoin price dropped 8% to $661.60 on June 14th, after hitting $719.85 the day before.
But during the same day it reached $691.70 and since then it keeps growing.
So, even if the price fell, this event cannot be considered a great volatility problem. Also, several experts explained that such instability is unavoidable.
“It is important for traders to understand that markets are always following cycles,” comments Joe Lee of Magnr, “Regardless of the asset type, if a price increases too quickly, the safe assumption is that a correction will occur in the short term.”

Halving and Brexit: will the bitcoin price keep growing?

Other experts in the bitcoin sector sustain that two of the most important reasons for the digital currency higher price are the miners rewards halving and the “Brexit”, or the possibility that the UK leaves the EU.
Experts explained that the halving has a key role in the growth of demand because it reduces the reward for each new block mined by 50%.
Rik Willard of Agentic Group LLC, is convinced that bitcoin price will move around $685 until the halving occurs.

Bitcoin Wallet

If you want to store your Bitcoins you need a wallet when you can keep them safe.
 
Open your wallet for free on HolyTransaction, an universal wallet where you can also store other digital currencies such as Ethereum, Litecoin, Dogecoin and more.
 
 

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

Amelia Tomasicchio

OpenBazaar Test: how the Bitcoin Ebay works

The Bitcoin Marketplace: OpenBazaar Test

Recently OpenBazaar, the decentralized marketplace where you can buy items for bitcoins, launched its new 1.1.6 version.
So we decided to do a OpenBazaar test, to let you deeply understand how it works and what you can buy on this innovative market using your cryptocurrencies.

Step-by-Step OpenBazaar Test: Follow this Guide to do some Shopping

1. First of all you need to go to the OpenBazaar website and click on the Download button you can find on the right top of the page.

2. A download will start soon. If it doesn’t, you just need to select your operating system such as Linux, Windows or Mac

3. After the download is completed, click on the file (maybe you will find it in the Download file) and launch it.

4. A new window will open where you have to complete your profile with info like name, timezone, avatar and your favorite currency.

5. You can also select your favorite theme to be used as a your profile template

6. Then you will be officially into your profile where you can add other info such as your social network profiles

7. Now you can start doing some shopping.

OpenBazaar has a simple interface, user-friendly enough to experiment and pay with your bitcoins.
Among the items you can find on this marketplace there is a wide range of the company’s merchandise, so I decided to support their cause by buying their pins.

8. As you can imagine, I just had to click on the item I wanted to purchase.

9. Then you just click on the “Buy Now” (“Compra ora” because my version is in Italian).
10. A windows will appear where they ask you if you already have a wallet (if not you can open it here).
11. Now you have to insert your public wallet address, you can find on your wallet among the settings.
During this process you can also create a temporary wallet address, useful if you can’t find your public wallet address and for security reasons you don’t want to disclose your private one.
12. OpenBazaar allows purchases from all around the world, but of course you need to pay extra bitcoins for the shipment.
For a shipment to Italy you need to pay an extra of about 0.0232 BTC, so I spent almost 17 EUR for that pin.

Bitcoin Wallet

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As I said, you can purchase your items on OpenBazaar by using bitcoins; and to do so of course you need a wallet.
Open your on HolyTransaction and find out more on our wallet where you can store several different cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, Peercoin, etc…
We call it a “Universal Wallet” for this reason.

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

Amelia Tomasicchio

5 ridiculous things used as a method of payment

 

5 items you can sell for your shopping

Some days ago Go Compare website published an interesting article about the weirdest currencies from all over the world.
In this funny list, they quote some incredible items used as a method of payment in several countries, including China, Siberia and more.
Read below the list of the 5 ridiculous things used as a method of payment.

Rai Stones

These particular kinds of stone are huge circular stone disks you can find in the Yap island, Micronesia.
Their value is based not only on its size, but also on its history. If many people died when the stone was moved or a famous person brought it in, the Rai stone value increases thanks to the anecdots related to it.
The greatest part of these stones are too large to move, so transactions are based on oral agreements.
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Mobile phone Minutes

Egypt, Nigeria, Tanzania and Ghana, people began to buy and sell mobile phone minutes for small transactions. This method of payment works this way: you need to trade with prepaid cards or use mobile apps that let users send minutes to other people.
This method started to be used in 2011 and one minute values 1 unit of currency.

Seashells

In coutries such as Langa Langa Lagoon and Solomon Islands, seashells are used as a method of payment.
These seashells – that are very rare because of their value – are used to create jewels that can be sold to tourists.
Each string values approximately $90.

Tea

Tea is very popular in countries such as China and Tibet, where tea bricks are used as a method of payment as well.
Created from tea leaves, tea bricks could be used to buy livestock and pay taxes too. In Siberia and Tibet tea bricks could be eaten or used to cure some disorders such as coughs and colds.

Bottle Caps

In 2005 a beer company in Cameroon started to hide prizes under bottle caps. Competitors companies started to do the same and the result was that almost every cap had a prize on it.
Prizes include free beers, trips and cars, and winning cap became a method of payments to buy goods and service thanks to them.

Multicurrency Wallet – open it for free

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Among the alternative payment methods there is Bitcoin, and to store this kind of coins you need a wallet.
To read more about how it works and to open a wallet for free here.

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

Amelia Tomasicchio
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How to use Facebook Messenger to create warranties on the Blockchain

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The British advisory company Deloitte recently used the new Facebook Messenger API to create a program that store warranties on the Bitcoin blockchain and allows clients to buy items insurances even after their purchase.

Of course this is only an early version of the complete Deloitte project, which is capable of working without any applications to be downloaded by the user.
On the company website, Deloitte service designer, Frank van de Ven, explains:
“It allows users to add information regarding their purchases and associated warranty information on the blockchain, by using a Facebook Messenger bot.”
Facebook Messenger users are more than a billion from all around the world, so to allow startups create products for their clients, Facebook decided to expand its Messenger app, creating a new API that allows custom bots.
This news came on April 12nd, 2016 at the annual F8 of San Francisco. During this event, in fact, Facebook presented this new bot.
Messenger Platform: Expanded access to the Messenger platform by giving you the ability to reach your customers where they already are with a new send and receive API. You will be able to build a custom bot in Messenger, providing anything from customer service to rich, interactive experiences such as automated responses or spawning a search”, explained Facebook VP Deborah Liu.

How the warranties bot works

The Deloitte warranty bot allows people to send a receipt image through the Facebook Messenger app.
Thanks to the Colu blockchain toolbox, this Deloitte feature creates a QR code and stores the bought item information on the well-known distributed ledger.
When people upload the warranty, the bot will allow items owners to transfer the warranty if the item will be resold.
It is a great idea for sure and we can’t wait to use this tool in the near future.

Multicurrencies Wallet

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Blockchain is the technology that allow Bitcoin transactions.
To store your bitcoin you may need a wallet.
Open your on the HolyTransaction wallet and you will be able to store also other digital currencies such as litecoin, dogecoin, blackcoin, ethereum and more.

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

Amelia Tomasicchio
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HolyTransaction add-on for cryptocurrencies exchange rates

Recently we at HolyTransaction created a new add-on for the Firefox browser only to see the exchange rates for cryptocurrency pairs.

This add-on allows you to see the exchange rates between the most popular currencies using only a couple of clicks.
Exchange rates are available between dollar, euro, bitcoin, litecoin, peercoin, dogecoin, dash, blackcoin and gridcoin.
The add-on’s simplicity provides you an easy way to have all the information you need before selling or buying your favorite cryptocurrencies.
The price is shown on your browser, according to your specific preferences. You can change the displayed number of decimal places in the user settings.

How to dowload the add-on

To download this HolyTransaction add-on, you just have to follow this step-by step guide:
  • Click on the Firefox Menu at the top right of the toolbar;
  • Click on “Add-on”;
  • Write “HolyTransaction” in the search at the top right of the page;
  • Click on “Add-on” on the left menu;
  • Click the “Download” button next to the HolyTransaction add-on.
  • You will find the exchage rates window at the top right of your toolbar.
You just need to click on the HT logo of HolyTransaction.

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

Amelia Tomasicchio
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Infographic: A basic overview of storage practices

A basic overview of Bitcoin storage practices infographic HolyTransaction

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