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@jack
-- we've spent the past 5+ years building Bisq v1 to be the go-to peer-to-peer DEX for bitcoin power-users.
We're working on v2 right now to take on everyone else.
Let's talk. Our heads together could result in something better than any of us could imagine.
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Why Bisq?
Many of you already know. Please share this thread with those who don't.
TLDR; 𝗕𝗶𝘀𝗾 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗺 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗳𝘁.
Bisq is to other exchanges the way Bitcoin is to banks.
⏬ SEE WHY IN TEN TWEETS ⏬
Calling
@LocalBitcoins
traders.
Bisq is built to be uncensorable.
We are sorry to see Localbitcoins go. It was a great P2P Bitcoin market. But as a company it can be regulated out of existence.
Bisq is not a company. It's Free Open Source Software.
The first Bisq 2 beta release is now available.
Interested?
Watch and
1. run Bisq 2;
2. trade with Bisq Easy (or lurk while others do);
3. give feedback in the new p2p group chat.
No company.
No CEO.
No jurisdiction.
No ICO.
No investors.
No data collection.
No accounts.
No former surveillance vendor employees.
So what does Bisq have?
Nothing.
And everything.
At the same time!
Don't trust? Verify:
BTC + KYC gets you pretty damn close to CBDC.
Consent to KYC and you're literally approving other people to spy on you in order to evaluate whether any of your future transactions are acceptable...aka a social credit system.
Bisq is on Nostr!
This npub will now be a primary outlet for Bisq news and announcements:
npub1sqn6rpml88nq8khuvvneuqztfmvalpsarr8grkwy837hzdw63ajs6t5net
Posts will be published there then cross-posted here.
Decommissioning X will be considered once Nostr has more followers.
Last month peers on the Bisq network did 4600 trades, one of the best months ever.
This month is not even half over and there have already been over 3000 trades.
On track to a record smashing.
📰🦊ShapeShift has big news for our users! We are now offering a new membership program, that will provide users with more benefits & a better user experience. Find out why we are making these changes from our CEO
@ErikVoorhees
:
Bisq v2.1 has been released!
Highlights include:
- Option to settle trades over the Lightning Network ⚡️
- Refined chat experience including emoji reactions 👍
- Know who's online with peer liveness indicators 🟢
You may have heard:
"Do not be evil" --> "Cannot be evil"
What about:
"Come at the king, you best not miss" --> "Have no king"
This is why:
ShapeShift, EtherDelta, IDEX, CryptoBridge, LocalBitcoins all flipped to KYC.
All corporate entities—all fatal mistakes.
Bitcoin needs a Layer 2 "trading" layer. Using
@hodlhodl
and
@bisq_network
would be so much better if for example Liquid (L-BTC) was the standard. Low fees, 1 minute confirmations and confidential balances.
Yes, it's semi-trusted but it's only to be used on temporary balances
August was a massive month for Bisq, setting a new record of 358 BTC traded.
That’s a 26% increase over the previous record month of June 2017, and at a a much higher average BTC/USD price.
Also, 13,000 trades as of today.
Calling
@LocalBitcoins
traders.
Bisq is built to be uncensorable.
We are sorry to see Localbitcoins go. It was a great P2P Bitcoin market. But as a company it can be regulated out of existence.
Bisq is not a company. It's Free Open Source Software.
Lots of interest and new followers today in the wake of the LocalBitcoins KYC news.
Welcome, all.
If you’re new to Bisq, read/watch this first: .
It’s important to understand what Bisq is, why it exists and how it’s different before you dive in.
Bisq has no employees, no headquarters, and no legal foundation.
Bisq is just code that users run.
The Bisq DAO is how we collaborate to build it.
Read to understand more.
If Bitcoin allows you to "be your own bank," Bisq allows you to "be your own exchange."
YOU run Bisq on YOUR own machine and trade bitcoin P2P.
Censorship-resistance by design, not policy.
Gatekeepers have no business being in bitcoin.
Let's shun them!
Bisq, 2016: you will own everything, have all the privacy, and be happy
Bisq, 2021: you will own everything, have all the privacy, and be happy
Bisq, 2030: you will own everything, have all the privacy, and be happy
Some centralized exchanges are restricting deposits and withdrawals in fiat. Problems with banking, payments partners...
Bisq is FOSS. Bisq is a DEX. Bisq is a DAO.
Bisq CANNOT block your payments, fiat or Bitcoin.
Other than a p2p trading platform, Bisq also represents a philosophy, and our philosophy goes against the settled policies of nowadays central exchanges.
At Bisq, KYC is the illicit activity, every bitcoin is a bitcoin, and every utxo is a fungible utxo.
The shadowy super coders empower the shadowy super plebs.
Together, all the shadowy super people disempower the psychopaths.
This is the goal. So be shadowy.
Bisq's mission is to be an uncensorable decentralised market.
Any regulation that compromises user privacy, security or sovereignty is illegitimate.
Bisq is FOSS. Anyone can run it without asking for permission. Even in authoritarian countries.
PRIVACY is the first line of defense to protect your life, liberty and property.
Thiefs, murderers and tyrants need your information to steal from you, attack and control you.
Don't give them your data!
We are looking for people from
#Argentina
to help kickstart the ARS/BTC market on Bisq Market Day.
All we need to start a new market is 2 people: 1 to make an offer and 1 to take it.
Bisq is a DEX. Just software that you can use to buy and sell Bitcoin P2P.
No company, no KYC, no account, no registration. Just you and your peer making a trade.
Bisq v2.0.4 has been released!
Features include the new and much-requested offer book list view seen below.
Get the binaries and read the full release notes at
PSA
Bisq doesn't require you to have a bank account / deal with banks at all.
You can buy/sell with:
- cash-by-mail
- in-person
- money orders (including USPS in USA)
- Amazon gift cards
Bisq v1.4.2 is now out.
Trade protocol improvements, Tor upgrade, bitcoinj upgrade, quicker startup speed.
🥁 and 🥁
You can send and receive funds from Segwit addresses.
Download:
Release notes:
Suddenly, the antics of other exchanges just become silly and demeaning...
- you can only trade after we approve your id selfie
- but cannot be in certain countries
- and cannot withdraw to certain addresses
- btw we closed your account, can't say why, sorry lol kthxbye
😠
Tomorrow we announce the biggest push for liquidity on Bisq in over 1 year.
Last time, hitting 300 offers in 1 day was a reach—and an all-time record.
Now we hit 400 offers reliably every day.
Can we push that to 600? 800? Beyond?
Stay tuned for details!
The initial release of the Bisq Mobile app for Android is now available.
1. Install Bisq v0.8.0.
2. Download the Android app from .
3. Go to Account->Notifications in the Bisq Desktop app and follow the instructions.
Bisq 1.7.5 is now out!
It adds several new payment methods (including Strike, yo) and allows trader chat to continue after a trade has finished.
Download:
Full release notes:
#DeleteCoinbase
tends to trend every time news breaks about the next nasty thing they did.
Realize you cannot ever actually delete Coinbase...whatever you do on there will be around forever no matter what you do.
But you can delete Bisq.
For good, 100%, if you ever wish to.
Reminder: make sure to send a selfie shot of what you're wearing today + vlog review of what you did today to your exchange overlords as proof you're not engaging in criminal activities.
✌️
Like Bitcoin, Bisq is open-source software.
You don't trade on a website—you trade on a program on your computer directly with others on a peer-to-peer network.
It's kind of like bittorrent, but for bitcoin.
FinCEN has proposed a new rule extending AML regulation to "unhosted wallets."
If adopted, the rule would require regulated companies to verify the name & address of non-custodial wallet users for any transaction > $3k.
Public comments are due January 4.
We insist on methods for stacking secret sats, not because they are easier, but because they are hard.
This challenge is one you should be willing to accept, one you should be unwilling to postpone, and one which you should intend to win.
After 5 years of development and 3 years in operation...
Bisq hits v1.0 on Monday at 5pm CEST.
Share the moment with us!
We'll also broadcast the event live on YouTube.
Want to buy or sell bitcoin without giving up privacy and security?
Bisq is the way, and today’s the day to try it.
During today’s Market Kick-Start effort, users are filling the offer book to make it easy for you to find attractive offers.
Please RT!
🤖
BISQ IS OPEN-SOURCE.
IT DOES NOT COLLECT USER DATA.
YOU KEEP YOUR PRIVATE KEYS.
CREATE OR TAKE OFFERS TO TRADE PEER-TO-PEER.
AND KEEP YOUR BITCOIN PRIVATE AND SECURE.
🤖
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Bisq v1.6.1 is out!
Minimum deposit is lowered to 0.001 BTC, groundwork is layed for implementing SegWit for BSQ transactions, and...
It officially releases the Bisq API in beta!
Full release notes:
Download:
Bisq has grown organically over the last two years by word of mouth.
It’s a natural, peer-to-peer approach that has produced steady growth and a smart, ideologically aligned user base.
There’s no need to “crowdfund spreading the word”—just keep sharing Bisq with your friends!
Bisq hit 70,000 trades all-time yesterday. This, just 6 months after hitting 50,000.
Says a little something about the pace of the network's growth...
Question though, why do you yanks charge so much of a premium on your bitcoin?
EUR much more friendly 😁
An experiment!
Many of you have asked for new payment methods on Bisq.
From now until Market Day (March 20th) Bisq will allow any payment method to be tested by using the F2F payment method.
Just use the CITY field to signal your preferred payment method.
Bisq v2.0.3 has been released with a number of important improvements and fixes, including:
- allowing buyers who make their own offers to decide the trade price, and
- making the process more consistent for sellers to acquire reputation.
Get it here:
"Kindly"...get lost.
@wasabiwallet
is fantastic. No one should have to beg/plead to send their bitcoin there...or anywhere else.
This
#ProofOfKeys
day, we encourage you to try Bisq to experience bitcoin trading the way it should be.
FREEDOM.
Private, secure, decentralized fiat-BTC exchange *without* layer-1 BTC tx security is uncharted territory.
So we're keeping our minds open and experimenting.
Multiple approaches are under consideration to combat high fees.
THREAD.
27 JULY 2021―Bisq's team of "shadowy super-coders" issues new guidance recommending the use of unregulated encryption and unhosted wallets to maintain control of funds. Those that don't run the risk of funds transmission to third parties (and lockdown of their accounts).
Bisq v0.9.1 is out now!
It's a bit of a mixed bag...you can now run Bisq in testnet mode directly from the GUI (just toggle the option in Settings), but you can no longer trade BCH.
So it goes 😁
Download:
Full release notes:
The Bisq network hit 60,000 trades on Friday.
HALF of those trades were in the past 1 year.
Which means there were just as many trades on Bisq in the past year as there were in the preceding 3 years...combined.
Once you opt out of old money, the next step is to opt out of the old money 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴 as well.
The entire infrastructure is crooked, not just the paper itself.
350 trades on Market Day.
Including EUR, USD, GBP, BRL, CAD, AUD, CZK, DKK, NZD, NOK, HKD, CHF, JPY, MXN, CNY, NGN...
Every continent represented!
Bisq, like Bitcoin, can be used by anyone, anywhere.
Shoutout to
@matt_odell
@dergigi
and
@croesus_btc
for mention on recent Citadel Dispatch.
Regarding DCA, API is on track to become available in next 1-2 months, which will enable use cases like using Bisq for DCA buys.
Whole episode is 💯
🚨 Just like Bitcoin enables you to be your own bank, Bisq allows you to be your own exchange. 🚨
Once you see that, the case for Bisq is clear, and it's hard to go back to anything else.
We are looking for people from
#Nigeria
to help kickstart the NGN/BTC market on Bisq Market Day.
All we need to start a new market is 2 people: 1 to make an offer and 1 to take it.
There is no AML/KYC/CTF to “deal with” here.
Bisq is non-custodial.
Bisq is not a company or legal entity.
Bisq is just code.
As a Bisq user, you are anonymous and your information is private by default.
Read to understand more.