Bisq Blog

25 February 2019

An Overview of the Bisq Network
If you are into cryptocurrencies, you may be interested in Bisq, a decentralized exchange that enables you to trade bitcoin for fiat currencies and other cryptocurrencies. Unlike centralized exchanges, you preserve your privacy when trading on Bisq since there is no need for registration or approval from any central authorities. In this post, I will give you an overview of the Bisq software and the Bisq network.

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18 February 2019

Bisq DAO for Bitcoin Maximalists
Let's cut to the chase: the Bisq DAO is built on the Bitcoin network, and the BSQ token is just colored bitcoin.

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13 December 2018

Bisq DAO now on testnet

Bisq v0.9 is one of the biggest updates to Bisq ever: it brings the Bisq DAO to testnet, as well as a striking new visual design (among a host of other improvements and bug fixes).

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4 July 2018

Bisq v0.7.1 released

Bisq version 0.7.1 has been released. We recommend all users update immediately.

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20 July 2017

The Bisq DAO manifesto

The Bisq DAO is a DAO that has been carefully designed to be stable against perturbations, such as majority attacks, scams and forks. The aim has been avoid any central points of failure or control and it is thus autonomous. It follows a general idea of DAOs, being based on network effects, modifiable computer programs and economic incentives. The Bisq DAO “controls” Bisq itself which is a p2p trading platform. The Bisq DAO has certain defining characteristics at its beginning, that we describe below:

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29 March 2017

Privacy in Bisq

To write a blog post about privacy in Bisq has been already a long time on my TODO list.

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6 March 2017

Bitsquare becomes Bisq

We announced a while ago that we started rebranding as a result of trademark conflicts.

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22 February 2017

Outcome of Rebranding Bounty

TL;DR

The team reviewed all bounty submissions, but there was no single name that clearly stood out. The Bitsquare bounty of 0.5 bitcoin will be distributed to those with best contributions.

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12 January 2017

Bitsquare is rebranding

Bitsquare has always been proud to say it is not a startup or a company, but a free open-source community project. It is being developed without venture capital or any other form of external funding, but with personal savings and donations from the community it serves.

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5 August 2016

Exploring the new territory

With the recent Bitfinex heist models for decentralized exchanges have received a bit more attention as usual.

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