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ede3d957 | 13 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Coming to an exchange near you soon.

Bitcoin scaling around CEX was a failure. 

Glad we have Monero.
Glad we have Bisq.
Glad we have Haveno.
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cef56741 | 13 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Bisq is a privacy nightmare, since all trades are public, even amount.
Haveno is very centralized and isolated. It does not even have a federation protocol.
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suddenwhipvapor | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 It is true that Bisq trades can be identified on the blockchain because of the characteristic inputs-outputs distribution, but from this to calling it a privacy nightmare there's a lot of space.
As usual all depends on your threat model, yet you can obtain a very reasonable privacy by either using unlinked btc utxos to pay for fees, or not linking trades with too many bsq peeling transactions.
Coinjoin is also a very good option, and I am talking about Joinmarket here, which is the only properly decentralized coinjoin implementation in existence (dont' be fooled by search engine hits, it's only on github). Joininbox runs a contained JoinMarket instance from a SD card on a raspberry pi3, with a pruned btc node.