PIVX, Private Instant Verified Transactions, is built to ensure your store of value, transactional security, privacy and fungibility.

The PIVX ecosystem has an very interesting blend of governance. Like DASH it has masternodes but it also implements Proof of Stake.

This creates some very interesting financial and economic incentives. PIVX can be purchased on Changelly.

Overview - Table of Contents
PIVX
Introduction
Stay Updated On News
Getting Started Using PIVX
Obfuscation
SwiftTX
Codebase
See-Saw Rewards Mechanism
Masternodes
Other Useful Features
Optimized PIVX Staking
PIVX 2017 Roadmap
The DASH v. PIVX Comparision

What is PIVX?

PIVX: Private Instant Verified Transaction (X)

PIVX: A privacy-focused decentralized open source cryptocurrency.

Launch Date: February 1st, 2016 (under the name of Darknet (DNET))

POS: Pos 3.0 (Bitcoin core 0.10.x code base)

Masternodes: Tor-Masternodes (10K PIVX/node)

No Premine.

PIVX INTRODUCTION

PIVX is a multifaceted community-centric endeavor in the blockchain tech and cryptocurrency realms.

There are many components of what and who PIVX is and why PIVX was manifested.

At the core, PIVX is designed, engineered, and evolving with the best practices and developments to ensure your store of value, transactional security, privacy and fungibility.

You have the right to exchange privately and securely, without interference from corporatocracy pressures, governmental influences, prying eyes, and nefarious individuals and movements.

In this modern age it’s time to allow individuals to exchange and use their wealth how and when they want, with a peace of mind that their transactions are occurring in a rapid fashion, and in a private and verified manner.

Launched on Feb 1st, 2016 under the name of Darknet (DNET), after developments and increased community involvement, it was decided to professionally rebrand and officially change the name to PIVX to more accurately reflect the underpinnings of the community ideals and ideologies being hard coded into the cryptocurrency.

The main goal of PIVX is to achieve near instant private transactions and a governance that helps sustain the network for the benefit of all of the users involved.

While PIVX is well on its way to achieving this, some of the features are under development and should appear in the near future.

PIVX News

The cryptocurrency markets are constantly changing. You can stay updated on the latest PIVX news or get help from the community here:

PIVX Sub-Reddit

PIVXPress - Youtube Channel

Getting Started Using PIVX

Step One - Get a PIVX wallet.

Step Two - Buy PIVX at an exchange like Bittrex.

Step Three - Withdraw the PIVX from the exchange to your wallet.

Step Four - Send to friends or family or spend PIVX at your favorite merchant. You can also load the Uquid debit card via PIVX.

Step Five - Grow the PIVX community.

Obfuscation

Mixing Mechanism: In wallet coin mixing based on CoinJoin with various improvements over the original, but done in a decentralized fashion facilitated by the network of masternodes.

This provides for an additional layer of privacy in transactions, while not perfectly anonymous, it is a far cry better than the standard bitcoin transaction.

If a nefarious actor were to control 50% of the current masternodes they would have less than 0.5% chance of de-anonymizing an individual transaction that was mixed with 8 rounds of Obfuscation.

SwiftTX

Instant Transactions: SwiftTX transactions are confirmed and spendable within seconds, guaranteed by the network of masternodes, with no need to wait for multiple confirmations in order to be confident in the validity of the transaction.

Code Base: PoS 3.0 Bitcoin Core 0.10.x

PIVX is the first proof of stake cryptocurrency to be based on the version 0.10 or higher Bitcoin codebase, and the PoS structure utilised does away with coin age, meaning in order to get the most out of your staking you must keep your wallet open at all times, resulting in more constantly available nodes, strengthening the network.

No more users opening their wallet once or twice a month for a few minutes and getting rewarded equally with those that have 24/7 up-time with their wallet.

See-Saw Rewards Mechanism

Block rewards received by the staker and winning masternode vary based on the amount of coins held for masternodes vs amount of coins available for staking on the network allows for Variable rewards based on needs of the network to keep the network services (Masternodes) and the security of the network (Staking Wallets) evenly distributed.

When there are fewer as the number of masternodes rises the portion of the block reward that they earn is reduced, it increases when the number of masternodes declines.

Masternodes

These are incentivized nodes that receive rewards based on their availability and their ability to offer network services in a decentralized and trust-less manner.

Running a masternode requires locking 10,000 PIV collateral for as long as you choose to run the masternode and allows the owner to vote on budget and development proposals.

These nodes are the backbone of the present and future services offer on the PIVX network, and as such are rewarded at a slightly higher level as compared to just staking when the number of them is at a predetermined level defined in the seesaw mechanism.

Other Useful Features

People often ask why they should choose PIVX above other crypto currency, here is a short list of features that make PIVX stand out from the crowd.

PIVX is an anonymous Peer-To-Peer currency.
PIVX is working towards Private Instant Verified Transactions as its default transaction.
PIVX is Community Driven
PIVX uses Blackcoin's improved Proof of Stake 3.0 protocol instead of Proof of Work. So it is more efficient in keeping the network secure than PoW.
PIVX has incredibly low transaction fees that are typically a fraction of a penny due to the PoS efficiency. This means it is perfect for micro-transaction business pricing models that previously existed using Bitcoin.
PIVX had no ICO. Pre-mined coins to start the chain were publicly burned.
PIVX is based on Bitcoin 0.10.x core which means it is more up to date than most other PoS digital currencies that commonly use a lower Bitcoin core version.
PIVX uses an innovative variable Seesaw Reward Balance System that dynamically adjusts its reward to masternodes and staking nodes. (See white-paper section.)
PIVX has a very large and growing active community on multiple social networking sites such as BCT, Slack, Reddit, Twitter, Riot, Gitter, Facebook etc.
PIVX community also uses Trello for publicly accessible task planning and management.
PIVX has a highly active, accessible and responsive development team.
PIVX is available to trade on multiple exchanges including Bittrex with plans to be added to larger exchanges.
PIVX currently has a monthly decreasing block reward inflation with it reaching its final low inflationary rate of approx. 4.8% pa beginning mid-May 2017.
PIVX has a repository of guides with more planned including video guides and materials.
PIVX has had consistently higher profitability percentage compared to other digital currencies utilizing masternodes such as DASH since launch and even now.

Optimized PIVX Staking

When staking, the larger the address balance the more will be earned.

For example, an address with about 15,000 PIVX will earn about 50% more per PIVX than an address with about 1,000 PIVX.

Masternodes may earn more but there is a lot of hassle setting up and running them.

You can estimate earnings with Cryptonode.

The wallet needs to be opened and unlocked while connected to the Internet; so be careful with security.

Addresses need to have at least 100 confirmations.

Crazy Pro Tip - After an address gets 100 confirmations then restart the wallet and unlock it. Then the staking should be active for that balance.

Super Crazy Pro Tip - In the Debug Console use the 'setstakesplitthreshold' command to change the default split threshold.