Bisq Blog

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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.

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.

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

A big day for Bitsquare – we have launched our Beta version!

Some of you might ask what causes the delay of the beta release which was planned for that summer. The reason for the delay is a change in a fundamental part of the application – the P2P network.

The really interesting problem in the recent Bitcoin crisis is not the block size debate. Nearly everyone agrees that there is need for a solution, but the consensus ends there. The form that the solution should take – and even the urgency of the problem itself – are still both hotly debated.

Good news! Bitsquare is expanding: Amanda Johnson and Mihail Mihaylov were delighted to join our team.

Regardless of what you think or whatever you got presented by the media regarding the Greek crisis, I think many of you will agree, that our current political system is in need for a drastic improvement to say the least. Depending on the interpretation of the severity of the problem one might come to the conclusion that our political, economic and financial system is just too broken to get fixed.

It was a bit quiet here the last months, but there was going on a lot on the development front.

Development update for verion 0.4 including a demonstration of the payment methods and the arbitration system: