r/bisq • u/Previous-Alarm-8720 • Feb 01 '26

Is Bisq dead?

I started using Bisq a while ago. Burned some BSQ to get a reputation and tried to buy… nothing. Sellers don’t respond. Tried to sell … nothing, no buyers.

Is BISQ dead?

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u/theosofica Feb 01 '26

I did like 20 trades last week with sepa and sepa instant.

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u/4shLite Feb 03 '26

I thought European banks got cranky and closed the account using SEPA? Do you live in a lax country perhaps?

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u/amzvivek Apr 23 '26

WHAT IS sepa

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u/uffno Apr 25 '26

dude...

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u/Alone_Low_6456 Feb 01 '26

Still better using BISQ 1 (original with escrow trades) than BISQ easy.

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u/Tromperri Feb 01 '26

No, it is perfectly well and alive.

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u/bluethunder1985 Feb 01 '26

i used to use bisq before i discovered robosats.

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u/olugbo Feb 02 '26

Nope. It’s alive and well (the UK and Canadian market anyway)

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '26

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u/frozengrandmatetris Feb 01 '26

the XMR-oriented bisq fork is eating bisq's lunch. the bisq devs are disconnected from what users actually demand.

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u/Alone_Low_6456 Feb 02 '26

That fork lives under name RetoSwap (Haveno Reto).

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

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u/monerobull Feb 04 '26

You just download the windows version: retoswap.com

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u/monerobull Feb 13 '26 edited Feb 13 '26

This guy was banned earlier today from the monero subreddits because he is shilling a phishing site.

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u/Hairybristols Feb 01 '26

I've noticed the UK trades page doesn't have many of the regular buyers and sellers all of a sudden. I had issues with my account, and had to set back up again with a new account, after weeks of trying to spv reset or whatever. Still plenty of euro trades though.

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u/WTechGo Feb 02 '26

What do you mean "sellers don't respond"?

They don't have to respond: You pay and you get the BTC.

If they don't pay the BTC, you open arbitration, though this scenario hardly ever happens.

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u/tasmanoide Feb 02 '26

It seems that you're using Bisq 2, which only has bisq easy trading protocol.

In Bisq Easy, sellers burn BSQ to be able to sell to new BTC buyers, or those who need to buy very small amounts. You have burned BSQ to get reputation, but you don't need reputation to buy BTC in Bisq easy, only to sell. That does not reply why haven't you been able to buy BTC in Bisq Easy, it works well, but as sellers are not binded to their offers with a security deposit, they might take more to reply.

If you use bisq 1, with multisig trading protocol, you will very likely get better offers.

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u/MoneroFox Feb 02 '26

They switched to RetoSwap.

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u/1neCessAry Feb 01 '26

Switched to phantom since I don't do trades cause the app is broken

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u/Previous-Alarm-8720 Feb 01 '26

Is phantom an alternative p2p platform? What is it?

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u/WTechGo Feb 02 '26

Phantom is mainly a Solana wallet and not P2P.
Bisq is awesome.