The Basics
Bitcoin Nova works a little differently to what you may have become accustomed to from other cryptocurrencies. In the case of a digital currency like Bitcoin and its many derivatives merchant payment systems will usually create a new recipient address for each payment or user.
However, because Bitcoin Nova has stealth addresses there is no need to have separate recipient addresses for each payment or user, and a single account address can be published. Instead, when receiving payments a merchant will provide the person paying with a "payment ID".
A payment ID is a hexadecimal string that is 64 characters long, and is normally randomly created by the merchant. An example of a payment ID is:
00000073656e74206279206f6e65206f662074686520646576656c6f70657273
Checking for a Payment in Zedwallet
If you want to check for a payment using Zedwallet you can use the "incoming_transfers". For example:
[BTN 2]: incoming_transfers
Incoming transfer:
Hash: 4e7116c0f44416d9bf947aee15cce19d690d4c60f4f62a85e5759e47bf1de37f
Block height: 370700
Timestamp: 2019-04-15 01:18
Amount: 5.900000 BTN
Payment ID: 00000073656e74206279206f6e65206f662074686520646576656c6f70657273
Receiving a Payment Step-by-Step
- Generate a random 64 character hexadecimal string for the payment.
- Communicate the payment ID and Bitcoin Nova address to the individual who is making payment.
- Check for the payment using the "incoming_transfers" command in Zedwallet.