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| [](https://travis-ci.org/bitsquare/bitsquare) | ||
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| ## About | ||
| Bitsquare is a **P2P Fiat-BTC Exchange**. | ||
| It allows to trade fiat money (USD, EURO, ...) for Bitcoins without relying on a centralized exchange like Coinbase or BitStamp. | ||
| Instead, all participants form a peer to peer market. | ||
| Bitsquare is a cross-platform application that allows users to trade fiat money (dollars, euros, etc) for bitcoin without relying on centralized exchanges such as Coinbase, Bitstamp or (the former) Mt. Gox. | ||
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| ## Dependencies | ||
| By running Bitsquare on their local machine, users form a peer-to-peer network. Offers to buy and sell bitcoin are broadcast to that network, and through the process of offering and accepting these trades, a market is established. | ||
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| - [JDK 8](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html) | ||
| There are no central points of control or failure in the Bitsquare network. There are no trusted third parties. When two parties agree to trade fiat money for bitcoin, the bitcoin to be bought or sold is held in escrow using the multisignature transaction capabilities built in to the bitcoin protocol. | ||
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| For installing Java 8 on Linux user that: | ||
| sudo apt-get purge openjdk* | ||
| sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java | ||
| sudo apt-get update | ||
| sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer | ||
| Because the fiat money portion of any trade must be transferred via traditional means such as wire transfers, Bitsquare includes first-class support for human arbitration to handle any errors or disputes. | ||
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| ## Development setup | ||
| You can read about all of this and more in the [overview](), [whitepaper](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d3EiWZdaM89-P6MVhS53unXv2-pDpSFsN3W4kCGXKgY/edit#), [arbitration](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LJCRFdtM2Jn2Oiv49qRXwBDG8HZD0Hiedy8tNjErHps/edit) and [risk analysis](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sHwU7K7C8Nl-fS4Z6X88L-NVJ_WBiKnsSpYpYfyqUXA/edit) documents. Several [screencasts](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d3EiWZdaM89-P6MVhS53unXv2-pDpSFsN3W4kCGXKgY/edit#) are available as well. | ||
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| git clone https://github.com/bitsquare/bitsquare.git | ||
| ./gradlew build | ||
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| ### Regtest mode for local testing | ||
| For local testing it is best to use the **regtest** mode from the Bitcoin QT client. | ||
| You need to edit (or first create inside the bitcoin data directory) the bitcoin.config file and set regtest=1. | ||
| ## Status | ||
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| Here are the typical locations for the data directory: | ||
| The team is currently working toward an initial [v0.1.0](https://github.com/bitsquare/bitsquare/milestones/v0.1.0) release. | ||
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| Windows: | ||
| %APPDATA%\Bitcoin\ | ||
| (XP) C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Bitcoin\bitcoin.conf | ||
| (Vista, 7) C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\bitcoin.conf | ||
| ## Staying in touch | ||
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| Linux: | ||
| $HOME/.bitcoin/ | ||
| /home/username/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf | ||
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| Mac OSX: | ||
| $HOME/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/ | ||
| /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/bitcoin.conf | ||
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| Take care if you have real bitcoins in your Bitcoin QT wallet (backup and copy first your data directory)! | ||
| More information about bitcoin.conf can be found [here](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin). | ||
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| You can generate coins on demand with the Bitcoin QT client with the following command in the console (under the help menu you find the console window): | ||
| **setgenerate true 101** | ||
| 101 is used only for the first start because of the coin maturity of 100 blocks. Later for mining of a single block you can use 1 as number of blocks to be created. | ||
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| More information about the regtest mode can be found [here](https://bitcoinj.github.io/testing) or [here](https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-examples#regtest-mode). | ||
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| The network mode is defined in the guice module (BitSquareModule) and is default set to regtest. | ||
| Testnet should also work, but was not tested for a while as for developing regtest is much more convenient. | ||
| Please don't use main net with real money, as the software is under heavy development and you can easily lose your funds! | ||
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| ## Resources: | ||
| * [Web](http://bitsquare.io) | ||
| * [Overview](http://bitsquare.io/images/overview.png) | ||
| * [Videos](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXvC3iNe_di9bL1A5xyAKI2PzNg8jU092) | ||
| * [White paper](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d3EiWZdaM89-P6MVhS53unXv2-pDpSFsN3W4kCGXKgY/edit) | ||
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| ## Communication channels: | ||
| * [Mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bitsquare) | ||
| * [IRC](https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=bitsquare) | ||
| * [Bitcoin forum](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=647457) | ||
| * [Twitter](https://twitter.com/bitsquare_) | ||
| * [Email](mailto:[email protected]) | ||
| * [Bitcointalk](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=647457) |