BTC to HBAR: Exchange Bitcoin to a Hedera Account, No KYC

If you are used to Bitcoin, Hedera will look unfamiliar at first. It is a distributed ledger built on hashgraph consensus, so you will not be counting block confirmations the way you do on Bitcoin. Transfers settle in a few seconds, and HBAR, its native coin, pays the fees.

The biggest change is how you receive coins. Bitcoin wallets hand out long addresses, and you can use a new one every time. On Hedera you have an account ID, a short number such as 0.0.12345. That single ID is what you give to anyone paying you, including this swap.

People choose this direction because they want to use Hedera, whether for its fast payments or for the token and smart contract services HBAR gives access to. You are exchanging BTC for a different asset here, and the HBAR you get is the native coin itself, on Hedera, with no wrapped version and no bridge in between.

Set up HashPack, the wallet listed for Hedera, before you start, and find your account ID there. Copy and paste it into the payout field. A short number invites typing from memory, but do not do that. A wrong digit can still look like a perfectly normal ID, so a slip will not stand out the way it might with a long address. Check every digit after you paste.

Bitcoin wallets are no use here. Sparrow, Electrum and hardware wallet apps for Bitcoin give you a bc1, 3 or 1 address, and none of those can receive HBAR.

The Memo field depends on who controls the receiving account. A personal wallet such as HashPack needs none, so leave the field empty. If you are paying into an exchange account, it usually gives you a Memo; enter that along with the ID it showed you.

Step 1: enter your BTC amount. With BTC as the send coin and HBAR as the receive coin, the box works out how much HBAR you get and shows the limits on what it can accept.

Step 2: paste the payout details. Enter your Hedera account ID, plus a Memo only for an exchange account. Below that, enter the Bitcoin address you will pay from.

Step 3: pay the deposit. Send precisely the displayed BTC to the one-time deposit address from your own Bitcoin wallet, and choose a fee rate that suits current demand.

Step 4: see it arrive. After the deposit has its confirmations, the HBAR is sent and Hedera settles it in a few seconds. Your swap ID opens a status page that reports each of these stages.

Almost all the waiting on this page happens before the swap begins. Bitcoin produces a block roughly every ten minutes, and your deposit needs one to three blocks. Hedera then takes only seconds, so the total depends mainly on the fee you pick in Sparrow, Electrum or your hardware wallet.

Kijken naar mempool.ruimte before you send. It shows how much recent transactions have paid to get confirmed, so you can set a suitable rate. A fee well below that level can leave your deposit waiting in line for a long time, while the rate keeps moving.

The sender address starts with bc1, 3 or 1 and has to belong to the wallet you actually pay from, because the form requires the funds to come from there. Pay in one transaction, for the exact amount. Once it is on its way, avoid sending a second deposit just because the first looks slow.

Once the HBAR is in your account, it pays its own way. Future transfers take their fee from the same balance, so you do not need a second coin to move it, though it is wise not to send every last bit of it. Search your ID on HashScan to see the incoming payment, including when your wallet app has not refreshed yet. The BTC side of this trade is finished by then, and no bitcoin has to remain in your sending wallet for anything further to happen.

One BTC is worth a very large number of HBAR, so a small slice of bitcoin can still produce a long figure. Use the box for the exact result after fees. Its quote comes from aggregated liquidity from leading crypto markets, and the rate floats until your Bitcoin deposit confirms, which on this chain can take a while. Most swaps finish within minutes once that deposit is in.

Your bitcoin and your account ID are enough, as GhostSwap is a no-KYC crypto exchange: there's no account, and we never ask for your name, email, phone number or identity documents to start a swap.

If a swap cannot be completed, the coins are refunded to the sender address you entered. That is a Bitcoin address on this pair, so give one from a wallet you can open. If mempool.space shows the deposit confirmed and the status page has stopped changing, write to support@ghostswap.io with your swap ID and the Bitcoin transaction ID. To go in the other direction later, see HBAR naar BTC.