Paying on Mars Market with BTC, LTC or XMR

Mars Market accepts three coins on equal footing — Bitcoin, Litecoin and Monero. Each lands the same way in your wallet on the storefront and each funds the same multisig contract at checkout. The choice between them is a question of speed, fee and how visible you want the trail of a deposit to be.

Bitcoin on the storefront

Bitcoin is the most widely held of the three and the easiest to source from a regulated exchange. It settles slowly compared to the others and the fee at busy times can rise, so a deposit that needs to be confirmed quickly is not always the right place to use it. The ledger is fully transparent — every transaction is visible on a public chain — so if you care about who can see a deposit later, treat Bitcoin as the option that asks for the most care before and after the transfer.

Litecoin on the storefront

Litecoin behaves a lot like Bitcoin from a user point of view but settles in roughly a quarter of the time and at a fraction of the fee. For a deposit you want confirmed before you go to bed rather than the next morning, Litecoin is the practical pick. Its chain is also public, but the lower friction makes it a common choice for buyers who want to move funds in and out without lingering with a large balance on the storefront.

Monero on the storefront

Monero hides the amount, the sender and the receiver at the protocol level. A Monero deposit is not visible to a third party on a chain explorer in the way a Bitcoin one is. The trade-off is that fewer exchanges offer it, so the on-ramp can take an extra step, and a few buyers find their bank uncomfortable with the swap. Once it is on the storefront, the wallet behaves exactly as it does for the other two.

What deposits look like in the wallet

The wallet panel on the storefront shows three deposit addresses, one per coin, generated when you ask for them. Send the coin to the address, wait for the network to confirm, and the wallet balance updates. Withdrawals work the same way in reverse, with the same three coins. Funds that sit idle in the storefront wallet earn nothing and protect nothing, so the standing recommendation is to keep the wallet small and active — enough for your current orders, not a long-term store.