<p>Leasing gives the other account your forging power, without giving them the ability to spend your coins. The two main use cases are:</p>

<ul>
<li>To lease to a forging pool run by someone else. This avoids the need for you to run a server 24/7, and the pool should forge more often, smoothing out the peaks and troughs in forging income.</li>
<li>To lease to a forging node run by yourself, but on a machine you don't trust; for example a cloud service. You keep your balance on a secure machine and lease it to the insecure one.</li>
</ul>

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<p>Since you can lend / lease you nxt to another account. </p>

<p>What are the pros/cons of this nxt lending feature? </p>

<p>What are some use case scenarios?</p>

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How does lending / leasing in NXT work? What are some use case scenarios?
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# How does lending / leasing in NXT work? What are some use case scenarios?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-07-01)

Since you can lend / lease you nxt to another account.

What are the pros/cons of this nxt lending feature?

What are some use case scenarios?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2014-07-07. Score: 1

Leasing gives the other account your forging power, without giving them the ability to spend your coins. The two main use cases are:

* To lease to a forging pool run by someone else. This avoids the need for you to run a server 24/7, and the pool should forge more often, smoothing out the peaks and troughs in forging income.
* To lease to a forging node run by yourself, but on a machine you don't trust; for example a cloud service. You keep your balance on a secure machine and lease it to the insecure one.


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