How to Use

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A New Decentralized, Trustless,
Cryptographic Powered
ecosystem for the marijuana industry.

Designed for high adoption.
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GET WALLET

Determine Your Operating System

Windows Wallet

Select the Windows icon to download.
(Not for Mobile Devices)

Mac Wallet

Select the Mac icon to download.
(Not for Mobile Devices)

Linux Wallet

Select Tux to download.
(Not for Mobile Devices)

Setting Up Your Wallet

The best practices to follow, in addition to our simple guide.

1. Determine Wallet's Operating System

2. Run The Motacoin Wallet

3. Secure the Wallet through Encryption

4. Determine a Strong Passphrase

5. Backup Wallet

6. Restoring Your Wallet

7. Receiving Coins

8. Sending Coins

1.Determine OS

Choose between our Windows, Mac or Android Motacoin Wallets

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2.Run Wallet

Locate the downloaded Motacoin file and run. This will create directories on your computer to hold the Motacoin data and configurations. The Motacoin directories are generated the first time you run the Motacoin program.

(If on Windows: When you initially run Motacoin, it may cause your wallet to crash if it's the first time being run. If that happens just run it again and it will work fine from that point on.)

Windows: Locate & Run the Motacoin file in Downloads
Mac: Navigate to the Motacoin app via the App Finder
Android: Setup by creating a six digit PIN, and a 12 word recovery passphrase.

3.Encrypt Wallet

After opening your wallet, we first must address the basics of blockchain security. Encrypting your wallet.dat file will provide an additional layer of security.

Navigate To The "Tools" Tab from within Motacoin
Select "Encrypt Wallet" from the drop down menu
Determine A Strong Passphrase (see next section for tips)

4.Determine Passphrase

Here are some things to keep in mind:

Don't use your name, or any of your information
Don't use password, or other simple phrases
Use a completely unique, complicated password of at least 12 characters consisting of letters, numbers and symbols.
DO NOT LOSE THIS PASSPHRASE

5.Backup Wallet

Choose a safe location for the wallet data backup, make sure you have this file (wallet.dat) copied and safely stored across multiple physical locations (CD, Thumb Drive, SD Card, Micro-SD card, Cloud Storage).

From the file menu, select "Backup Wallet...". This will open a browser to determine the name and location of the backup file.
You may name this file whatever you wish, however it will need to be re-named "wallet" when you restore it in the future.
Once the Backup has been saved, then copy it and save it across multiple locations. (Physical and Digital)
We recommend saving a copy on a thumb drive, or CD as one of those locations.

6.Restoring

To restore your wallet, you may reference this:

1) Open the Motacoin wallet. This creates the directories needed to restore your wallet.

2) Find the local Motacoin app folder.
Locate the existing wallet.dat file. This file doesn't need to be saved, but you may save it somewhere nearby to be safe.

3) Then take out this wallet.data file, then replace with your backed up Motacoin wallet.dat. Once you swap out the existing/newly created wallet.dat file with your backup wallet.dat, you may restart the Motacoin wallet and it will be restored!

Find) Windows: C:\Users\$USER\AppData\Roaming\MotaCoin
Find) Mac:
Hard Drive > Users > $USER > Library > Application Support > Motacoin
Find) Linux - Ubuntu
(To view hidden folders, Press CTRL-H to toggle)
/home/$USER/.MotaCoin/wallet.dat (<- substitute here)
Recover) Android: Got to Settings from the Main Screen, then select "Start/Recover Another Wallet" and enter your 12 word passphrase from your previous Android Wallet.

7.Receiving

Now that you are comfortable with the basics of owning a wallet:
-Creating a Wallet (By running Motacoin on a fresh computer)
-Securing a Wallet (By encrypting and backing up)
-Recovering a Wallet (Replace wallet.dat / Enter 12 recovery words)

Now, lets go over how to use digital currencies like Motacoin

Run Motacoin Wallet and Select "Receive coins".
1) From the "Receive coins" tab.
2) select "New Address".
3) Input a label for this "Receive Address",
-The label is only for your internal use.
-That's it! You have created your first deposit address!
Sharing your address:
-You may copy your address by right clicking on the 30 digits under the "Address" column and selecting "Copy Address" or "Show QR Code"

30 Digit Address
-Send this 30 digit string to someone that wants to send you MOTA. They put your "Recieve" address in their "Send" field to complete the transaction.

QR Code
- You may save this QR Code image via "Save As..". Once you save this address, you can scan it from any Motacoin Mobile Wallet.

8.Sending

Now that you have the "Receive coins" tab understood, lets move on to the "Send coins" tab. It's very simple.

1) From a running Motacoin wallet select "Send coins" from the navigation bar on the left side of the user interface.
2) Paste the target's 30 digit "Address" in the "Pay To" field.
3) You may then label this address for your future reference.
4) Then input the amount of Motacoin to send.
5) You may send to multiple recipients at once. Each time you press this button, it add's another "Send To" object to fill out.
6) Press "Send", and that's it!

Wrapping up!

That's it for the basics!

Now that you have a basic understanding of how digital currencies work, be sure to test each step and ensure your confidence handling it!

There are a couple tabs remaining:

(Transactions) - View previous Send's/Receive's
(Statistics) - Blockchain related information
(Address Book) - Keep track of important addresses. (Automatically stores any addresses you label.)
(Block Explorer) - View all transactions on the blockchain.
(Social/Exchange) & (Export) - Coming Soon!

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Email

Support@Motacoin.net