Bisq Blog

30 April 2019

Why Some Bitcoin Companies Go Rogue: An Interview with Janine from Block Digest
Ricardo Martinez interviews Janine of Block Digest. They discuss a peculiar phenomenon—the tendency for people and companies made successful by Bitcoin to turn against Bitcoin—and why it happens.

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17 April 2019

Bisq DAO Launches with Bisq v1.0
After years in the making, the Bisq DAO has launched on mainnet with the v1.0 release of the Bisq software, just days before Bisq celebrates 3 years in production.

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8 April 2019

Why I Am a Bisq Contributor: Aruna Surya
Aruna Surya discusses her experience with being a Bisq contributor—why she started contributing, why she continues contributing, and how there's still a lot to like for a non-technical person with diverging interests.

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29 March 2019

Privacy Best Practices & Bisq: An Interview with Max Hillebrand
Ricardo Martinez interviews Max Hillebrand of the World Crypto Network. They discuss privacy in general, privacy with respect to bitcoin, privacy with respect to Bisq, and more.

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22 March 2019

How to Set Up a Bitcoin Regtest Environment
In this post, Tomáš shows you how to set up your very own Bitcoin regtest environment with bitcoin-qt and make your own blocks!

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13 March 2019

Benefits of the Bisq DAO, Part I: Funding FLOSS & Avoiding Surveillance Capitalism
The Bisq DAO enables value transfer and decision-making for the Bisq network. But it has several additional benefits too, which we'll focus on in this series.

In this post, Part I of this series, we'll discuss how Bisq's revenue model offers a new approach to funding open-source software development that, by design, avoids incentives to exploit user privacy altogether.

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6 March 2019

How to Earn BSQ by Contributing to Bisq
Bisq is an open-source software project, but it has a built-in revenue model to compensate its contributors—and anyone is welcome to contribute!

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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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