What's the easiest way to buy, and hold VeriCoin in the UK?

Will the dynamic interest still come into play if I buy via somewhere like mintpal/cryptsy and keep it in there?
Buy bitcoin on
http://bittylicious.com and trade btc on mintpal/cryptsy/bittrex for vrc. You won't gain interest though if it's held in an exchange wallet, so withdraw and hold in your qt wallet.
God it, thank you! Will get some on mintpal then transfer to the wallet... btw, sorry but what is a qt wallet?