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bisq
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Is offline-first not enough? Do we need "serverfree"?
So is this basiclly a fully peer-to-peer application, like bittorrent clients?
Or something like bisq (https://bisq.network) when the program runs locally peer to peer and hosts all user data locally, but still pings oracle servers for outside market price data?
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How to buy BTC without an exchange ?
We are on r/bisq and bisq.network.
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Anyone else just f*cking angry after studying bitcoin for a while?
https://bisq.network/ doesn't required ID verification and the fiat payment goes directly to the seller instead of the exchange, so it's less likely to get blocked by banks.
- "Absolutely nothing we can do about it"
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Selling btc without kyc
Bisq (https://bisq.network/) and Robosats (robosats.com) are non-kyc exchanges that have various forms of payments available.
- Buying bitcoin without exchanges in countries like vietnam
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0 sats, can’t start to buy BtC
Join us on bisq.network.
- Bisq – A decentralized Bitcoin exchange network
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Can someone sell me bitcoin?
https://learn.robosats.com/ or https://bisq.network/ are both popular If using a DEX like bisq you will need to have a small amount of btc to get started though https://bisq.wiki/Getting_your_first_BTC
- Ouro?
physical-bitcoin-attacks
- The privacy that coins like Monero give far outweighs all the illegal uses of it, everyone has a right to privacy that shouldn't be taken away
- One of the advantages of blockchain is that we can roughly calculate how much money went into scams involving cryptocurrencies, because everything is on the public blockchain. Can the same be said for taxe evasion, bribery, corruption, drug trafficking, and other stuff that don't involve crypto?
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Kaspersky: Case study: fake hardware cryptowallet (Trezor)
Obligatory $5 wrench xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538/
Still, physically threatening/kidnapping somebody is an entirely different threat model, although it's very common in the Bitcoin world: https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks
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Has there ever been a recorded case of someone being physically robbed of crypto?
This isn't only a comedy topic, there is a list on Github with all known physical Bitcoin attacks.
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Dubai Crypto Manager Abducted for €1M Ransom Has Been Rescued in Spain
This one can be added to the list of known crypto attacks. It will be #188.
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How will Bitcoin coercion evolve in the near-to-mid future?
We don't have the answer, but can share the concern. jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks holds a list of such "$5 wrench attacks" where people torture others in hopes of stealing their crypto.
- Hide Ledger
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$5 Wrench Attacks: Why Crypto Will Not Widespread
There have only 130 wrench attacks reported in the history of Bitcoin.
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LPT: If you have a hardware wallet and also own a gun, keep them in the same place
You act like this doesn't already happen to people: https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks
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Friendly reminder: never keep your seed together with your device, it makes it useless
Prob talked about it unfortunately. She knew enough to go looking for the hardware wallet + seed. Everything else she took was just extras. Physical altercations almost always involve prior knowledge of the victim's possessions..
What are some alternatives?
robosats - A simple and private bitcoin exchange
P2P-Trading-Exchanges - Person-to-Person bitcoin Trading Exchanges
monero - Monero: the secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency
kycnot - Don't get KYC'ed
WalletWasabi - Open-source, non-custodial, privacy preserving Bitcoin wallet for Windows, Linux, and Mac.
Bitcoin.org - Bitcoin.org Website
BlueWallet - Bitcoin wallet for iOS & Android. Built with React Native
bip39 - A web tool for converting BIP39 mnemonic codes
haveno - Decentralized P2P exchange built on Monero and Tor
raspiblitz - Get your own Bitcoin & Lightning Node running - on a RaspberryPi with a nice LCD
l2beat - L2BEAT is an analytics and research website about Ethereum layer two (L2) scaling solutions.