Interview
summary
Bisq is a desktop Java app running over Tor that implements a peer-to-peer, crypto–fiat exchange using a flood-fill gossip protocol for a distributed order book and 2-of-3 multisig escrows with an arbitrator key; it has been live 18 months with zero incidents in 18 months and thousands of trades worth millions. Trades settle out-of-band via bank wires or SEPA, the project runs no central servers or logs, and a colored-coin token was issued on testnet from 25 BTC -> 2.5M BSQ for fees, compensation, voting and bonding (initially non-transferable).
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Bisq at Hacker Congress
- 1:11Crypto-fiat exchange challenge
- 4:43Bisq’s peer-to-peer network
- 6:07Privacy and security in trades
- 7:31Bisq’s Bitcoin role
- 8:14Data storage in Bisq
- 8:57Bisq’s open-source history
- 9:59BSQ token model and governance
- 12:24BSQ token utility and bonding
- 14:30Earning and contributing to Bisq
- 16:58Closing and Q&A
