How to use Altcoins with SolidTrust Pay
Posted: August 16, 2017 Filed under: How To, STPay Site Updates | Tags: altcoins, Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, ether, litecoin Leave a commentDid you know that you can buy and sell Bitcoin with SolidTrust Pay? Simply create an account and follow these instructions! You can either buy Bitcoin from your account or convert it to USD and make a withdrawal using the method of your choice. We use a service that tracks the value of Bitcoin and exchanges it at whatever the current rate is.
In addition to Bitcoin, there are several other cryptocurrencies that are gaining recognition and popularity, including Litecoin, Ether and Dogecoin. With SolidTrust Pay, you can turn these “altcoins” into cash by depositing them into your SolidTrust Pay wallet and having them instantly converted to USD.
Here’s how:
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Navigate to your Deposit Money Area by clicking My Money -> Deposit Funds within your account and choose the “Bitcoin/Altcoins” option.
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Enter the amount of money in USD you wish to withdraw from your altcoin wallet, check the Bitcoin Deposit option, enter your secondary password and click Deposit Funds.
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Carefully read the details of your transaction, including the fees and total amount you will receive, then press the CONFIRM Transaction button.
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Choose the coin you wish to use for your deposit from the dropdown menu (in the examples below, we chose Ether).
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Enter your altcoin address, click Pay with Ether and press Continue!
Please note: Paying with altcoins takes a little longer than paying with bitcoins.
Expect a delay of 30-90 seconds before we register your payment.
The following is an up-to-date list of cryptocurrencies that you can use with SolidTrust Pay:
Bitcoin
Litecoin
Ether
Startcoin
TetherUSD
Dogecoin
Reddcoin
Peercoin
StorjX
Nubits
Novacoin
Digibyte
Mastercoin
Counterparty
SolidTrust Pay Merchants can now Easily Accept Bitcoin Payments!
Posted: June 13, 2017 Filed under: How To, Member News, STPay Site Updates | Tags: accept bitcoin, Bitcoin, bitcoin payments, business account, buy bitcoin, merchant, Online Merchant, sell bitcoin Leave a commentSolidTrust Pay has been offering Bitcoin services for over 3 years, allowing users to easily turn bitcoin into their preferred currency and back again since the early days of the blockchain-based cryptocurrency. Many members use SolidTrust Pay exclusively to buy or sell bitcoin because we offer competitive rates and we’re known for our high levels of security and reliability. Additionally, SolidTrust Pay is one of the most functional online platforms in terms of money deposits, transfers, exchanges, purchases and withdrawals, giving users a multitude of options for buying or selling bitcoin.
SolidTrust Pay is pleased to announce that it is now free for merchants to upgrade their business accounts to accept bitcoin. This means merchants and business account holders can now apply completely free and offer their customers one more option to easily make payments for website purchases at the press of a button using bitcoin!
We’re excited to make this option easier for our merchants to take advantage of. Here are just a few of the benefits to having a Bitcoin payment button on your business/ecommerce website:
- More options for your customers: the more ways you offer people to pay for your products or services, the more people will do so! Offer them as many options as possible.
- More exposure and visibility: the Bitcoin community is tight-knit. When a business begins to offer the option to pay in bitcoin, word tends to travel fast!
- Simple and seamless integration: since payments made via a Bitcoin payment button will be applied to your STPay account as USD, there is no time wasted with extra steps for exchanging the currency and withdrawing those funds.
If you already have a merchant account with us, you can apply for a Bitcoin payment button by selecting the “Accept Bitcoins” option in your Merchant Section. If you don’t have a merchant account, what are you waiting for? Sign up and start accepting bitcoin payments now!
The Past Year in Bitcoin was Incredible
Posted: May 11, 2017 Filed under: General Interest, Member News | Tags: Bitcoin, bitcoin price, blockchain, cryptocurrency, digital currency 1 CommentAnother day, May 11, 2017, and Bitcoin has climbed another $100. Since late December of 2016, Bitcoin has been increasing in value rapidly. The value increase correlates with higher frequency of trading and increased public adoption. Bitcoin is setting records daily, and seems to be on track for widespread use as more online merchants and real-world locations begin to accept the digital currency.

Bitcoin has nearly quadrupled over the past year, as of May 2017.
It’s incredible to think that Bitcoin was worth less than $500 in May of 2016, and has climbed to over $1800 at the time of this publication. With three major ups and downs during that time, Bitcoin has shown strong resilience in rebounding, and appears to be on its strongest run yet. Lets talk about those three previous runs.
As CNBC reported around June 2016, there are three main reasons for the activity in
Bitcoin around that time:
- Problems with Bitfinex, and their eventual shutting down (price drop in early August)
- Uncertainty surrounding Brexit at that time
- The Yuan Effect, and Chinese markets
While Bitfinex, a major Bitcoin exchange in 2016, suffered with server issues and eventually being hacked for over $72M worth of Bitcoin, traders and believers in the digital currency had to contend with the influence of the Chinese Yuan as well as the uncertainty around whether or not a Brexit would happen. These are the three most influential factors in the action we see around June 2016 regarding the value of Bitcoin.
The next hiccup faced by Bitcoin enthusiasts came in January 2017, after briefly rising to near all-time-high prices during its most impressive run since 2013. On January 5th, the average price of a Bitcoin across most trading platforms sharply fell around $200. This specific price drop was speculated to be linked to rumors of increased regulation on the digital currency by the Central Bank of China, and the free fall continued for a full week.
The final hurdle in our incredible story of Bitcoin over the past year is still fresh in the memory of many Bitcoin traders and enthusiasts. After hitting record highs, and even surpassing the price of gold for the first time ever, an unfavorable decision by the SEC regarding the eligibility of a Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust to be traded on the stock exchange put the entire future of Bitcoin at risk. But this is not what caused the rapid loss in value of nearly $300 in just 3 days. The cause of this most recent hurdle comes from within the Bitcoin community itself (along with more rumors of Chinese regulations), as Bitcoin miners and thought-leaders debate over complicated software and tech issues.
At the time of this writing, we have yet to experience the next big roadblock in the blockchain-based digital currency’s journey to widespread adoption, as Bitcoin continues to soar at truly astonishing rates.
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