Introduction
In the world of digital money, new projects are making it easier to use cryptocurrencies every day.
This article shows how the Hive blockchain, with cool tools like V4V.app and Distriator, is building a lively, linked money system. It's like Hive's own "Bitcoin Beach," helping local money flow and growing the economy in a big way, outside of regular banks.
1. How a New Money System Works
This new way of using money uses the best parts of both old and new digital currencies.
1.1 Hive & HBD: Earn Digital Money and Keep it Steady
The Hive blockchain is a fast, free place where people can earn digital money by creating things and joining in. You can earn Hive coins and a steady coin called HBD (Hive Backed Dollars) by writing blogs, making videos, sharing content, or using different online apps. This activity inside Hive helps put money into a circular economy right away.
1.2 Bitcoin Lightning: Quick and Cheap Payments
Bitcoin is a safe and trusted way to store value. Its Lightning Network makes it even better by letting you send small amounts of money very quickly and cheaply, so you can use it for everyday buys.
2. V4V.app: The Main Bridge to Connect Money
V4V.app is a key tool that acts like a "money translator," making it smooth and easy to move money between the Bitcoin Lightning Network and the Hive blockchain.
2.1 Easy Way to Change Hive/HBD to Bitcoin
For people who use Hive, the best part of V4V.app is how it quickly changes Hive and HBD right into Bitcoin (Sats) on the Lightning Network. This means you can use your Hive earnings to buy things anywhere Bitcoin is taken.
Simple Swap: V4V.app lets you trade Hive or HBD for Sats (small pieces of Bitcoin) with low fees.
Fill Your Bitcoin Wallet: You make a Bitcoin payment request (called a Lightning Invoice) from your Bitcoin wallet, then send Hive to V4V.app.
Pay Right Away: V4V.app quickly handles your Hive and pays the Bitcoin bill. Any extra Hive goes back to your account, making it easy to use. This is often built into Hive apps like Hive Keychain to make it super simple.
Spend Now: Once it's Bitcoin in your wallet, you can use it right away. You can then spend your Hive or HBD-made Bitcoin wherever Bitcoin Lightning payments are used. This means buying coffee, paying for online stuff, or getting anything else that takes Bitcoin through Lightning, making your Hive and HBD much more useful in real life.
2.2 Two-Way Street: Get Bitcoin Value on Hive
V4V.app's link also lets money flow the other way, making it simple for people who create things on Hive to get paid in Bitcoin:
Bitcoin to Hive: People using Bitcoin-ready podcast apps can send small, ongoing payments ("streaming sats") or one-time tips ("boosts") in Bitcoin right to creators.
Easy Payouts for Creators: V4V.app acts as a gateway, instantly changing these incoming Bitcoin (Sats) into Hive or HBD and sending them with no fees to the creator's Hive address. This means creators don't have to deal with the hard tech stuff of running a Bitcoin Lightning node themselves.
2.3 Smart Benefits & More Uses
V4V.app does more than just swap money. It brings together the big reach of Bitcoin and the quickness of Hive to offer great benefits: Hive users can reach more places, more people can get financial help (especially in new markets), it links different crypto systems together safely, and it makes it easier for creators to earn money.
3. Distriator: The Reward System for Spending Real Money
Distriator is a special program that doesn't aim to make a profit. It gives you discounts and cashback on the Hive blockchain, making it even better to use digital money. It gives users instant HBD cashback when they buy things with Bitcoin Lightning or HBD and share their purchases on social media within the Hive system.
3.1 What is Distriator All About?
Distriator gives you money back when you spend Bitcoin Lightning or HBD. The special part is you have to share your purchases on the Hive Blockchain to get your cashback.
3.2 How Distriator Helps You
You get some cool benefits when you use Distriator:
Big Refunds: You can get back between 35% and 60% of what you spend. This money comes back to you in Bitcoin Lightning or HBD.
More You Use, More You Get: The more you use Distriator to ask for your cashback, the more money you get back. They are also planning a system that rewards people who use it often.
Help a Good Currency: You're helping a fair, quick, and stable digital money (like HBD) that doesn't have one big company or boss in charge.
Build a New Way to Pay: You're helping to make and grow a money system that works without old-fashioned banks. This means more freedom and safety from rules that might try to stop you.
3.3 How Distriator Works: Step-by-Step for Cashback
To use Distriator, both you and the store need to have Hive accounts. Here's how to get your cashback:
Find a Business: Go to a store that takes Hive Backed Dollar or Lightning payments.
Get a Bill (Invoice): Make sure the store gives you a special code (QR code) bill from V4V.app or Hive Keychain Store.
Use a Different Account (Good Idea): It's smart to use a separate Hive account for Distriator. Keep it off your main social media page. Add it to your Hive Keychain app.
Check Your Money: Make sure you have enough Hive Backed Dollars in the account you'll use to pay.
Pay: Scan the QR code with your Hive Keychain app to pay the bill.
Ask for Cashback: Within 30 minutes of buying, go to Hive-Distrion.app and log in with the same account you used to pay.
Click "Claim": Tap the button that says "Claim" in the app.
Take Pictures: The app will ask you to take 2 to 10 photos of your shopping at the store.
Write a Short Note: You also need to write a simple sentence about what you did at the store.
Say Yes: Click to keep going and sign the payment.
You Got It! The app will tell you that you got your money. Then you quickly get your HBD cashback (35% to 60% of your buy price) in your wallet. The more you use the app, the more rewards you get!
3.4 How It Works Inside: No Profit and Clear Rules
Distriator runs without making a profit. When you ask for cashback, the Distriator app makes a tiny post on the Hive blockchain using your Hive account. Distriator uses a small part of the money from your post (called a "beneficiary") to pay you the instant cashback. Any money left over is given back to the community as prizes in contests for people who spend Bitcoin Lightning and HBD the most. You can see how this works by checking the Hive account: @distriator.bene. This shows that all the money Distriator gets goes back to people in the community who are active.
This clear system, built on the blockchain, makes it very hard to trick. This helps HBD and Bitcoin spread fairly.
4. Making the Network Bigger: Helping Others Join
Distriator wants to greatly increase how Hive and Bitcoin Lightning payments are used in the real world. Bitcoin users can even "mine" new HBD coins by getting cashback with Distriator. These clear payments in real stores, recorded on the blockchain, are very important and hard to fake.
4.1 Get Paid for Helping Others Join
The system offers ways to earn money for helping the network grow:
If you help new businesses join, you can earn a part of the cashback they give out.
Special "Trusted Guides" who help businesses use the system and get more customers can earn extra money.
People who help new users join get a part of the cashback paid to those new users for their first six months.
4.2 How to Get New Businesses Onboard
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to make new pages for businesses.
When you visit stores (even those that use regular payments), write reviews on Hive using #spendhbd. These reviews can be added to the business pages, and you get rewarded with Hive upvotes for them.
After a business has a few reviews (2-5 is good), ask the owner if they want to take Bitcoin or Hive payments. When a business makes a Hive account, they can then take both Bitcoin Lightning (with V4V.app) and Hive Backed Dollar payments.
It's often easier to start with stores that already take Bitcoin Lightning, as they are usually open to new ways to pay and might want a stable coin like HBD.
Once a business joins, their customers get 35-60% cashback when paying with Bitcoin Lightning or HBD and getting their money through the Distriator app. If a Trusted Guide says it's okay, the person who helped the business join will earn money from the HBD cashback paid out.
4.3 How to Get New Users Onboard
Distriator plans to hold local classes near joined businesses to teach new users how to:
Make Hive accounts.
Make payment bills (invoices) using V4V.app and Hive Keychain Store.
Send and get payments.
Get cashback rewards with Distriator.
Make #Spendhbd posts on the Hive Blockchain.
Easily change their crypto into Bitcoin, Lightning, or their local money (if they can).
5. Future Plans and Where You Can Use It
Distriator wants to be used by many, many people in the future.
5.1 How the System Can Keep Going
Distriator itself doesn't make a profit (all extra money goes back to the community as prizes or to keep the system running). But the growing system can stay strong in two ways:
Business Memberships: Stores might pay a monthly fee to be listed as "whitelisted" and have Bitcoin and Hive users sent to them.
Paid Reward Campaigns: Stores could pay to set up special reward programs. Trusted Guides would help them reward users for spending, writing reviews, and sharing content on other social media.
5.2 App Type & What It's Built With
Right now, Distriator is a web app (PWA) that works like an app in your internet browser. It's built using Flutter (for the web app), NodeJS (for the behind-the-scenes work), and MongoDB (for its data). It's not open-source yet because it's still being built quickly, but they plan to make the code public later and also make full apps for iPhones and Android phones.
5.3 How to Get the Best Rewards
You can get more rewards in different ways:
Regular Rewards: Adding new business pages (coming soon) or writing reviews for businesses that aren't yet on Distriator or don't have Hive accounts.
Medium Rewards: Paying with Bitcoin Lightning or HBD at businesses that have Hive accounts and claiming your cashback through the Distriator app.
Best Rewards: Being one of the top spenders (7 claims every two weeks), helping new users join (you get a part of their rewards for 6 months), and writing reviews for businesses that have active special deals. A "Trusted Guides Program" is also being made to find good people to help the system grow.
5.4 Where You Can Use It Now & Big Global Dreams
Distriator is made to be a worldwide project, not just for certain countries. You can help stores accept Hive anywhere in the world.
Right now, 75 businesses in 7 countries are on the list and give HBD cashback when you pay with Bitcoin Lightning or Hive:
Venezuela; Barquisimeto, Caracas, El Tigre, Cumaná (Sucre)
Brazil; Sao Paolo
Cuba: La Habana
Ghana; Sekondi-Takoradi
Guatemala; Guatemala City, San Marcos La Laguna
Mexico; Rosarito
Poland; Krakow
This list shows that it's really working to build a global payment system with Hive.
More importantly, the system helps and wants new businesses and users to join anywhere in the world. The main goal is to make a money system that works outside of regular banks, using the global power of Hive and Bitcoin.
Conclusion: Hive's Growing Digital Money World
When the Hive blockchain, V4V.app, and Distriator work together, it's a very smart and new way to make crypto useful in the real world. It helps with money access and fighting against rules that might stop you. It lets people earn digital money by creating things on Hive, easily change it into Bitcoin (which is used all over the world) with V4V.app, and then get real money back through Distriator when they spend. This whole system creates a modern, digital money circle. It's like the powerful movement seen at Bitcoin Beach, but with extra parts like earning money from content and a built-in cashback system that doesn't make a profit. This is truly a powerful, growing not just in places, but across the huge digital space, making Hive very important for the future of digital money and buying/selling.
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