There are 2 types of ways you'll be able to trade.

Atomic Swaps
Lightning Swaps

You can do atomic swaps with a lot of coins, way more projects have integrated atomic swaps, compared to Lightning Swaps (For now).

To begin with, you'll be able to trade: BTC/LTC/XSN over Lightning, and as soon as USDT moves to Lightning as well, it's gonna be added as well I'm sure.
This means that you'll be able to spend XSN EVERYWHERE where BTC is accepted as payment. These cross chain transactions will make XSN useful in many ways, including Cross Chain Staking (Check their roadmap). It basically means, you'll be able to STAKE XSN, but instead of recieving XSN, you can choose to recieve BTC or LTC payments instead. So by holding your XSN on a hardware device, you'll be able to make passive BTC gains in the future, which is pretty damn cool

As always, do your own research on the project!

BTC is king, and it always will be, but it has some major flaws, like it or not.

On-chain, Bitcoin is capped at 7 tx/sec. The more activity the network sees, the slower transactions become.
As it grows in value, fees increase as well.
Lightning allows for a theoretically unlimited number of transactions at near-zero fees, but it has seen stagnant growth because there's little financial incentive for individuals to adopt it on their own.
XSN's solution involves using its decentralized Masternode network and the collateral locked in them to rout payments, act as watchtowers, and provide a ton of liquidity for transactions.
This will bolster Lightning without centralizing it.
Most masternodes projects has no purpose, but Stakenet actually makes use of all these servers standing idle all around the world.

As XSN is inflationary, the supply will slowly increase over time and allow more masternodes to participate.
With this design and approach, BTC will be able to scale and take on much heavier workloads without hitting any major bottlenecks down the road.

Additionally, XSN's masternodes are going to use lightning to restore some of BTC's inherent privacy and anonymity that was compromised by CEXs and KYC.
By embedding TOR into the network and implementing lightning atomic swaps, anyone will be able to instantly and privately swap a wide variety of coins without ever having to send them somewhere that is out of their control. This will greatly minimize the need for businesses that accept crypto to adopt 10 different types of coins as so many of them can be instantly swapped into BTC.
Imagine a standard Bitcoin qt wallet with an extra tab that offers everything that a full scale exchange has and you have the essence of Stakenet.

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I'm a huge fan of Lightning, but don't like the centralized part of it - Seems like Stakenet got a solution to make it Decentralized, which is pretty damn cool.
The project aims to enhance the user experience of BTC and LTC payments with their upcoming dApps like their Lightning DEX, and Multi Currency Lightning Wallet.

What are you guys thoughts on this? Honestly if crypto ever goes mainstream, you'd be waiting WEEKS, if not MONTHS for your BTC and LTC transactions to arrive, which is simply not sustainable, let alone the increasing high fees.
I know there are crypto alternatives like NANO, but BTC will play a HUGE role in crypto moving forward, and needs to scale properly.

Reading this makes me SO confident in Decentralized Exchanges, who's gonna take over soon.
Nobody should be worried when dealing with crypto, but with all these exchange hacks, phising attacks, and various scams out there, it's no wonder people are scared of losing their funds.

What if you could trade instantenously, while being in 100% control of your private keys and funds all at the same time? Take a look at Stakenet, and what they do with Lightning Transactions, it's truly a game changer.
I know I'm gonna sound like a stupid "shill" just wanting to promote the project, but do your own research man.

On-chain, Bitcoin is capped at 7 tx/sec. The more activity the network sees, the slower transactions become.
As it grows in value, fees increase as well.
Lightning allows for a theoretically unlimited number of transactions at near-zero fees, but it has seen stagnant growth because there's little financial incentive for individuals to adopt it on their own.
XSN's solution involves using its decentralized MN network and the collateral locked in them to rout payments, act as watchtowers, and provide a ton of liquidity for transactions.
This will bolster Lightning without centralizing it.

As XSN is inflationary, the supply will slowly increase over time and allow more masternodes to participate.
With this design and approach, BTC will be able to scale and take on much heavier workloads without hitting any major bottlenecks down the road.

Additionally, XSN's masternodes are going to use lightning to restore some of BTC's inherent privacy and anonymity that was compromised by CEXs and KYC.
By embedding TOR into the network and implementing lightning atomic swaps, anyone will be able to instantly and privately swap a wide variety of coins without ever having to send them somewhere that is out of their control. This will greatly minimize the need for businesses that accept crypto to adopt 10 different types of coins as so many of them can be instantly swapped into BTC.
Imagine a standard Bitcoin qt wallet with an extra tab that offers everything that a full scale exchange has and you have the essence of Stakenet.

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I'm a huge fan of Lightning, but don't like the centralized part of it - Seems like Stakenet got a solution to make it Decentralized, which is pretty damn cool.
The project aims to enhance the user experience of BTC and LTC payments with their upcoming dApps like their Lightning DEX, and Multi Currency Lightning Wallet.

What are you guys thoughts on this? Honestly if crypto ever goes mainstream, you'd be waiting WEEKS, if not MONTHS for your BTC and LTC transactions to arrive, which is simply not sustainable, let alone the increasing high fees.
I know there are crypto alternatives like NANO, but BTC will play a HUGE role in crypto moving forward, and needs to scale properly.

Take a look at Stakenet, seriously.

On-chain, Bitcoin is capped at 7 tx/sec. The more activity the network sees, the slower transactions become.
As it grows in value, fees increase as well.
Lightning allows for a theoretically unlimited number of transactions at near-zero fees, but it has seen stagnant growth because there's little financial incentive for individuals to adopt it on their own.
XSN's solution involves using its decentralized Masternode network and the collateral locked in them to rout payments, act as watchtowers, and provide a ton of liquidity for transactions.
This will bolster Lightning without centralizing it.

As XSN is inflationary, the supply will slowly increase over time and allow more masternodes to participate.
With this design and approach, BTC will be able to scale and take on much heavier workloads without hitting any major bottlenecks down the road.

Additionally, XSN's masternodes are going to use lightning to restore some of BTC's inherent privacy and anonymity that was compromised by CEXs and KYC.
By embedding TOR into the network and implementing lightning atomic swaps, anyone will be able to instantly and privately swap a wide variety of coins without ever having to send them somewhere that is out of their control. This will greatly minimize the need for businesses that accept crypto to adopt 10 different types of coins as so many of them can be instantly swapped into BTC.
Imagine a standard Bitcoin qt wallet with an extra tab that offers everything that a full scale exchange has and you have the essence of Stakenet.

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I'm a huge fan of Lightning, but don't like the centralized part of it - Seems like Stakenet got a solution to make it Decentralized, which is pretty damn cool.
The project aims to enhance the user experience of BTC and LTC payments with their upcoming dApps like their Lightning DEX, and Multi Currency Lightning Wallet.

What are you guys thoughts on this? Honestly if crypto ever goes mainstream, you'd be waiting WEEKS, if not MONTHS for your BTC and LTC transactions to arrive, which is simply not sustainable, let alone the increasing high fees.
I know there are crypto alternatives like NANO, but BTC will play a HUGE role in crypto moving forward, and needs to scale properly.

This is just ONE dApp that will run on the Stakenet eco-system. Check out www.stakenet.io/roadmap and check what these guys are up to.

Agreed, and Stakenet is exactly that. I think you'd be surprised if you actually tried out their new multi currency wallet. (with Lightning swaps, and TOR integration). It's in beta testing, so you need to join their Discord server, and ask to test it, from what I've seen and heard, it works pretty damn well!
Still waiting for an official release

Komodo is a decent project, which I've been following since the start of 2017, had a great run and their developers seem to know what they're doing. I did see their Atomic Swap test, and was impressed by it, but quickly realized that it's gonna take some real nerds to actually believe in it, and use it for daily trading. It's slow when you think about it. 9 seconds seems like a quick trading time, but in reality, it's like using the internet with 56kbit modem back in the early 2000's.

I believe Stakenet's DEX solution is far more promising, with near instant transactions, privacy, and lower fees. Sure it's a newer project, and they have to prove themselves more than KMD, but it looks promising so far.

Silver is gonna outperform Gold massively. The silver to gold ratio is completely out of whack, so anyone looking to buy metals, I'll suggest you to pick up some silver.
The price of silver is already moving faster than gold as of the last few days percentage wise.

Everyone should own at least some silver, and some gold. Silver being the most undervalued asset on earth, (yeah, do your own research, if you don't believe this statement). If you look into the history of metals, silver should be way over $700/ounce compared to the price of gold by now.

Crypto is way riskier, but I agree that there are tons of profits to make (and lose potentially).

The safe bet is always BTC, but I believe peoples greedyness will soon be seen in the altcoins, since it's a fantastic way to make more BTC once alts has bottomed out, only the big boys decides when it's time though, and it's based on the products getting released to the public from these altcoin projects as well.

Personally I've diversified SOME of my BTC into XSN, who I believe will be one of the projects changing the whole crypto world with decentralized trading over lightning, which quite frankly is something everyone wants.
Instant trading, no sign-up proccess, NO KYC, all while being in control of your own private keys.

The current DEX solutions is way too slow using Atomic Swaps.

Do your own research though, not here to spoonfeed you everything Their roadmap is incredibly promising though, and they've delivered everything they promised so far.

Not a bad choice of coins, but look into Stakenet, which i highly believe can be a high contender to become a HUGE project by the end of the year since that's where they'll release the worlds first Lightning DEX.

Most DEX solutions sucks ass, since they use Atomic Swaps to facilitate the trading, which takes way too much time compared to a centralized solution.
Day traders want instant trades, with as small of a fee as possible, and at the same time, wants to avoid KYC.

This is where Stakenet's Lightning DEX might take a huge lead in the future, since their Lighning DEX will be (unlike some of the other wannabe DEX solutions) completely decentralized

The concept is unique, since you make the masternodes host all the chains on DEX, this makes running a masternode slightly more expensive compared to your normal VPS, however it benefits the consumer who wants to USE the DEX. Why?

1) You DON'T need to sync with the DEX (Since the DEX is synced by the masternodes running at all times)
2) Near instant transactions between lightning compatible coins
3) Extremely low fees if you trade over lightning
4) NO KYC
5) NO Registration Process

This is just 1 dApp running on this eco-system. They built a multi currency lightning wallet as well, with 1-click lightning swaps, and TOR-integration, which is currently in BETA testing. Available soon for Android/IOS/Desktop.

Do your own research, however this has the best chance of becoming the industry standard later on, for sure!

I'm diversifying into XSN (Stakenet) for a lot of reasons, but the biggest reason is as follows:

Most DEX solutions sucks ass, since they use Atomic Swaps to facilitate the trading, which takes way too much time compared to a centralized solution.
Day traders want instant trades, with as small of a fee as possible, and at the same time, wants to avoid KYC.

This is where Stakenet's Lightning DEX might take a huge lead in the future, since their Lighning DEX will be (unlike some of the other wannabe DEX solutions) completely decentralized

The concept is unique, since you make the masternodes host all the chains on DEX, this makes running a masternode slightly more expensive compared to your normal VPS, however it benefits the consumer who wants to USE the DEX. Why?

1) You DON'T need to sync with the DEX (Since the DEX is synced by the masternodes running at all times)
2) Near instant transactions between lightning compatible coins
3) Extremely low fees if you trade over lightning
4) NO KYC
5) NO Registration Process

This is just 1 dApp running on this eco-system. They built a multi currency lightning wallet as well, with 1-click lightning swaps, and TOR-integration, which is currently in BETA testing. Available soon for Android/IOS/Desktop.

Do your own research, however this has the best chance of becoming the industry standard later on, for sure!

Alts will recover as soon as the whales decides to move them.

Don't forget that alts are a way to make a TON of BTC in a short time frame, and you can be sure that a lot of the whales wants to push alts eventually to position themselves better in Bitcoin.
It's true that the BTC dominance is at record levels, but it's gonna turn around when Altcoin projects starts to deliver what they promise - In other words, we need to see actual products before people get confident enough to diversify some of their BTC into alts.

Personally I'm a huge fan of Stakenet, since it enhances every BTC and LTC investor out there, by facilitating Lightning transactions in a decentralized setup, which hasn't been seen before.

Most DEX solutions sucks ass, since they use Atomic Swaps to facilitate the trading, which takes way too much time compared to a centralized solution.
Day traders want instant trades, with as small of a fee as possible, and at the same time, wants to avoid KYC.

This is where Stakenet's Lightning DEX might take a huge lead in the future, since their Lighning DEX will be (unlike some of the other wannabe DEX solutions) completely decentralized

The concept is unique, since you make the masternodes host all the chains on DEX, this makes running a masternode slightly more expensive compared to your normal VPS, however it benefits the consumer who wants to USE the DEX. Why?

1) You DON'T need to sync with the DEX (Since the DEX is synced by the masternodes running at all times)
2) Near instant transactions between lightning compatible coins
3) Extremely low fees if you trade over lightning
4) NO KYC
5) NO Registration Process

This is just 1 dApp running on this eco-system. They built a multi currency lightning wallet as well, with 1-click lightning swaps, and TOR-integration, which is currently in BETA testing. Available soon for Android/IOS/Desktop.

Do your own research, however this has the best chance of becoming the industry standard later on, for sure!

Its value was based off of HYPE - It's use case is small, considering what other projects are buildings in the crypto space.

Invest in projects that empowers, and enhances the user experience of crypto. If you look at the vast majority of crypto projects, they either have NOTHING going for them, that benefits anyone, or they are copying what everyone is doing, trying to compete with the big boys (XSPEC Vs Monero as an example)

You need to bring something NEW, and USEFUL for the average crypto investor if you want to make the big money moving forward. All these ICO scams, with nothing going for them will continue bleeding in sats.

Personally I'm eyeing Stakenet as the next big coin for several reasons.

Most DEX solutions sucks ass, since they use Atomic Swaps to facilitate the trading, which takes way too much time compared to a centralized solution.
Day traders want instant trades, with as small of a fee as possible, and at the same time, wants to avoid KYC.

This is where Stakenet's Lightning DEX might take a huge lead in the future, since their Lighning DEX will be (unlike some of the other wannabe DEX solutions) completely decentralized

The concept is unique, since you make the masternodes host all the chains on DEX, this makes running a masternode slightly more expensive compared to your normal VPS, however it benefits the consumer who wants to USE the DEX. Why?

1) You DON'T need to sync with the DEX (Since the DEX is synced by the masternodes running at all times)
2) Near instant transactions between lightning compatible coins
3) Extremely low fees if you trade over lightning
4) NO KYC
5) NO Registration Process

This is just 1 dApp running on this eco-system. They built a multi currency lightning wallet as well, with 1-click lightning swaps, and TOR-integration, which is currently in BETA testing. Available soon for Android/IOS/Desktop.

Do your own research, however this has the best chance of becoming the industry standard later on, for sure!

You seem to know a lot about Lightning, so I assume you're following the technology movements closely.
I agree with the fact that this tech opens up a lot of possibilities for altcoins to further enhance the user experience for everyone.
When reading about Lightning and Bitcoin, there's a lot of mixed feelings, since it seems like a centralized solution, hence why I believe Stakenet's decentralized solution is a genius idea to route payments faster than anyone else in the crypto space, further enhancing the experience of BTC and LTC users, who's gonna benefit from trading on the Stakenet platform.

I can see a lot institutions wanting to move their business to lightning as well, since it provides near instant trading, without risking your millions of dollars on a centralized exchange.

Scalping profits on Bitcoin is risky, but extremely profitable if you know TA.

Look out for Stakenet's Multi Currency Lightning Wallet (It's in open BETA testing right now). It's gonna be available for Android/IOS, which means you'll be able to scalp profits on BTC while on the go.
Once USDT (Tether) enables lightning on mainnet, you'll be able to tether up in seconds for a lower fee than you pay on a centralized exchange, and back again to BTC, making you easy profits.

This is 100% while being in control of your own private keys, no risk of exchange hacks etc.

Do your own research on the project - Personally, I'll use it once released to scalp profits on BTC's monster pumps. I'm not keeping my BTC on any centralized exchanges, too risky these days.

Screenshot of mobile app version of the wallet:

Binance has a LOT of dominance currently, but if you want to stay absolutely safe in the future, you gotta trade on a reliable DEX.

Most DEX solutions sucks ass, since they use Atomic Swaps to facilitate the trading, which takes way too much time compared to a centralized solution.
Day traders want instant trades, with as small of a fee as possible, and at the same time, wants to avoid KYC.

This is where Stakenet's Lightning DEX might take a huge lead in the future, since their Lighning DEX will be (unlike some of the other wannabe DEX solutions) completely decentralized

The concept is unique, since you make the masternodes host all the chains on DEX, this makes running a masternode slightly more expensive compared to your normal VPS, however it benefits the consumer who wants to USE the DEX. Why?

1) You DON'T need to sync with the DEX (Since the DEX is synced by the masternodes running at all times)
2) Near instant transactions between lightning compatible coins
3) Extremely low fees if you trade over lightning
4) NO KYC
5) NO Registration Process

This is just 1 dApp running on this eco-system. They built a multi currency lightning wallet as well, with 1-click lightning swaps, and TOR-integration, which is currently in BETA testing. Available soon for Android/IOS/Desktop.

Do your own research, however this has the best chance of becoming the industry standard later on, for sure!

Users don’t need their own Lightning Node to do Swaps they just connect to the network we have. You need the network to keep track of all the transactions and monitor the balances otherwise what would verify everything

Yes, and no.
If you invest in the right projects, it can be extremely lucrative, but you need to stay cautious of all the shit tokens, and scams out there with nothing going for it.

You can play it safe, by investing in BTC and ETH, but the real gains that are gonna be life changing is still in the low marketcap projects, which could potenially reach 100x again.
Finding these projects is tricky though, you need to look for projects with active development, but not only that, what they develop needs to be accounted for as well. There are a lot of small niche projects, with next to no real world demand, yet people jump on them hoping for a quick profit.

One of the most legit projects, that actually enhances BTC and LTC users the most is Stakenet (XSN). With all the recent regulation rules, KYC, and limits on peoples accounts, not to speak of exchange hackings, and frozen assets.

Decentralized exchange trading is what everyone wants, but the current DEX solutions is not really feasibly for that, since they use atomic swaps to make the trades. These swaps takes several minutes to process, and frankly, nobody wants to wait for that, especially if you're a day trader.
Stakenet has a solution that makes the Lightning Network decentralized with the help from 2000+ masternodes in their network running it.

This makes it possible to run a decentralized DEX with NO KYC, NO registration, NO syncing time with the network. Near instant transactions, with very low fees.

And this is just ONE of many dApps to run on their eco system of masternodes btw.

I'd advice you to invest in XSN as well, even if it's a low cap project. It's a project that enhances the user experience of BTC and LTC massively by utilizing the Lightning Network in a decentralized way, never seen before. Through masternodes the whole setup is decentralized, and flawless.

Bitcoin will NEVER go mainstream in it's current state. Why? Here's why:

On-chain, Bitcoin is capped at 7 tx/sec. The more activity the network sees, the slower transactions become.
As it grows in value, fees increase as well.
Lightning allows for a theoretically unlimited number of transactions at near-zero fees, but it has seen stagnant growth because there's little financial incentive for individuals to adopt it on their own.
XSN's solution involves using its decentralized MN network and the collateral locked in them to rout payments, act as watchtowers, and provide a ton of liquidity for transactions.
This will bolster Lightning without centralizing it.

As XSN is inflationary, the supply will slowly increase over time and allow more masternodes to participate.
With this design and approach, BTC will be able to scale and take on much heavier workloads without hitting any major bottlenecks down the road.

Additionally, XSN's masternodes are going to use lightning to restore some of BTC's inherent privacy and anonymity that was compromised by CEXs and KYC.
By embedding TOR into the network and implementing lightning atomic swaps, anyone will be able to instantly and privately swap a wide variety of coins without ever having to send them somewhere that is out of their control. This will greatly minimize the need for businesses that accept crypto to adopt 10 different types of coins as so many of them can be instantly swapped into BTC.
Imagine a standard Bitcoin qt wallet with an extra tab that offers everything that a full scale exchange has and you have the essence of Stakenet.

I'm obviously biased, since I invested some of my portfolio in XSN, but I see huge potential in the project, since it's not a direct competitor to BTC, but rather enhances the overall user experience.

Bitcoin will NEVER go mainstream in it's current state. Why? Here's why:

On-chain, Bitcoin is capped at 7 tx/sec. The more activity the network sees, the slower transactions become.
As it grows in value, fees increase as well.
Lightning allows for a theoretically unlimited number of transactions at near-zero fees, but it has seen stagnant growth because there's little financial incentive for individuals to adopt it on their own.
XSN's solution involves using its decentralized masternode network and the collateral locked in them to rout payments, act as watchtowers, and provide a ton of liquidity for transactions.
This will bolster Lightning without centralizing it.

As XSN is inflationary, the supply will slowly increase over time and allow more masternodes to participate.
With this design and approach, BTC will be able to scale and take on much heavier workloads without hitting any major bottlenecks down the road.

Additionally, XSN's masternodes are going to use lightning to restore some of BTC's inherent privacy and anonymity that was compromised by CEXs and KYC.
By embedding TOR into the network and implementing lightning atomic swaps, anyone will be able to instantly and privately swap a wide variety of coins without ever having to send them somewhere that is out of their control. This will greatly minimize the need for businesses that accept crypto to adopt 10 different types of coins as so many of them can be instantly swapped into BTC.
Imagine a standard Bitcoin qt wallet with an extra tab that offers everything that a full scale exchange has and you have the essence of Stakenet.

I'm obviously biased, since I invested some of my portfolio in XSN, but I see huge potential in the project, since it's not a direct competitor to BTC, but rather enhances the overall user experience.

It's never too late to invest in crypto currencies, but you gotta invest wisely these days...

Bitcoin will NEVER go mainstream in it's current state. Why? Here's why:

On-chain, Bitcoin is capped at 7 tx/sec. The more activity the network sees, the slower transactions become.
As it grows in value, fees increase as well.
Lightning allows for a theoretically unlimited number of transactions at near-zero fees, but it has seen stagnant growth because there's little financial incentive for individuals to adopt it on their own.
XSN's solution involves using its decentralized MN network and the collateral locked in them to rout payments, act as watchtowers, and provide a ton of liquidity for transactions.
This will bolster Lightning without centralizing it.

As XSN is inflationary, the supply will slowly increase over time and allow more masternodes to participate.
With this design and approach, BTC will be able to scale and take on much heavier workloads without hitting any major bottlenecks down the road.

Additionally, XSN's masternodes are going to use lightning to restore some of BTC's inherent privacy and anonymity that was compromised by CEXs and KYC.
By embedding TOR into the network and implementing lightning atomic swaps, anyone will be able to instantly and privately swap a wide variety of coins without ever having to send them somewhere that is out of their control. This will greatly minimize the need for businesses that accept crypto to adopt 10 different types of coins as so many of them can be instantly swapped into BTC.
Imagine a standard Bitcoin qt wallet with an extra tab that offers everything that a full scale exchange has and you have the essence of Stakenet.

I'm obviously biased, since I invested some of my portfolio in XSN, but I see huge potential in the project, since it's not a direct competitor to BTC, but rather enhances the overall user experience.

Passive income is great!

I'm making passive income from my XSN masternodes, and soon when Stakenet launches their many dApps, I'll make even more in passive earnings.
Their multi currency lightning wallet with 1-click lightning swaps and TOR integration is one of their dApps.

Later this year they are releasing the first Lightning DEX, which are run on masternodes, which means you don't need to submit KYC, register, or sync with the DEX.
Instant anonymous trading.

Do your own research