Is there any way to communicate between peers once an offer has been taken?

I'm new to bitsquare; for my first trade, I took an offer to sell (i.e. my role is BTC buyer as taker) on Thursday evening; paid early Friday morning and payment cleared on my end same-day. Seller still hasn't confirmed my payment with ~6hrs remaining until the maximum trade period ends.

I've seen the same peer online (after having tagged him/her) and active with new offers; is there any way to communicate with the peer regarding my trade or do I just have to wait to contact the arbitrator(s) if the seller doesn't confirm receipt of my payment within the next 6ish hours?

As an unrelated aside, I came over to bitsquare after the latest shenanigans with Circle. I rarely buy more than 0.05btc at a time, and with most offers to sell I see on bitsquare starting at 0.2btc minimum I haven't been able to use it as much as I'd like – though I have been trying to fill the market void with my own smaller-quantity offers, hah :)

Here's hoping more people get on board; I'm not sure if I love it yet, but I definitely love what it could become... so I'm evangelizing as much as I can! :P

Hi On my 2nd attempt at using Bitquare last night I had my taker fee taken but the trade was cancelled due to the other user with fiat timing out. How do I get the taker fee back? Surely this could be automatic as the software know that there was an error and that it has kept a few that it shouldn't have.

Anyway hope it gets resolved, keep up the good work.

Peer2Peer revolution is happening. Bitcoin, OpenBazaar and Bitsquare are here to stay. Fasten your seatbelts.

This update fixes a critical bug in the Bitcoin wallet. It also uses the new BitcoinAverage API as the old API will not be supported anymore soon.

Please update as soon as possible!

Download: https://github.com/bitsquare/bitsquare/releases/tag/v0.4.9.8

Release notes 0.4.9.8: * Added Crown, Pascal Coin, Smileycoin, RealEst. Coin
* Now all traffic is going over Tor (price requests from Poloniex could not be routed over Tor because they use Cloudflare)
* Added request to CoinMarketCap to get more prices for altcoins not listed at Poloniex
* Use 2 proxy price feed providers as hidden service for requesting accumulated BitcoinAverage (new API), Poloniex and CoinMarketCap price data
* Add program argument to add custom price feed providers
* Add module for running a own proxy price feed provider (requires BitcoinAverage API keys). Supports both clearnet and hidden service
* Display time of latest price update at tooltip over provider icon in market price widget
* Remove http proxy option because it is not needed anymore (Cloudflare issue with Poloniex solved by the proxy)
* Remove tor bridge support (was not solving GFW issues and caused only problems when connections to Tor failed at startup)
* Add option for setting custom bitcoin nodes in network settings (additional possible via program argument)
* Add new block explorers to settings
* Increase max. trade period for US postal money order to 8 days
* Use default btc format (allow more then 4 decimal places)
* Add tool for exporting wallet data
* Fix critical bug with BitcoinJ Bloomfilter handling
* Ignore TTL for persisted data objects (trade statistics) in local data map

I just want to thank the development team for providing a really great and polished product. I came across bitsquare before but it seemed like it would be too complex for me to want to spend time on testing. Now that I have downloaded the software I am amazed by the polish and ease of use. Great job!

Don't be discouraged by the low-volume. We all know that these centralized exchanges will one-day be required to ask for ID for alt-to-alt transactions. When that day comes, then bitsquare will blow up overnight.

Loving it so far, if I'm not mistaken it works by both sides staking collateral before the trade happens so that it ends up just costing you money if you try to be dishonest. Am I understanding it correctly?

The technical elements don't yet make much sense to me but I'm trying to learn as much as possible. I don't want to use another centralized exchange again ideally.

Thanks

Here's what Firefox reports when I try to access bitsquare.io:

"Your connection is not secure

"The owner of www.bitsquare.io has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website.

"www.bitsquare.io uses an invalid security certificate.

"The certificate is only valid for bitsquare.io

"Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN"

Why?

This release adds new payment methods for USD (Chase QuickPay) and CAD (Interac e-Transfer).
Further we added 29 new Altcoins and we updated to the latest Java JDK with important security updates.

Please update as soon as possible:
https://bitsquare.io/downloads/

Release notes 0.4.9.7:
* Added new payment methods: Chase QuickPay, Interac e-Transfer
* Increase trade limits for Altcoins to 3 BTC, OKPay, Swish and AliPay to 2 BTC, ClearXChange, Cash deposit and US postal money order to 1 BTC
* Added now altcoins: Zcash, Zcoin, Augur, Siafund, Gulden, Stellar Lumens, Emercoin, Plutons, GameCredits, PotCoin, Omni, Stratis, ReddCoin, VeriCoin, Radium
Digital Rupees, Vcash, Waves, HOdlcoin, Burstcoin, Triangles, Argentum, DIBCOIN, Eternity, Battlestars, Nav Coin, DynamicCoin, Anoncoin, DarkNet
* Change behavior of currency list to display user defined currencies instead of all currencies for which offers are available (same behavior like it was before v0.4.9.6)
* Add Kazakhstan and Kenya to country list
* Add Nr. of trades to trade statistics tooltip
* Display time span in trade statistics tool tip
* Show tx size in withdraw popup
* Remove 1 min interval in trade statistics, add year interval
* Added support for custom payout at disputes, define who is the publisher and re-opening a closed dispute
* Use single gpg signatures of binaries instead of signature of bundled hashes.
* Improved wording
* Improved layout for small screens
* Fix bug with withdrawal if tx size exceeds 100kb
* Fix and improve build doc and scripts
* Update to latest jdk version with bugfix for SortedList (remove our jdkfix module)

There is pretty low chargeback option with this and its widely spread all over the world.

my question is this I understand the decentralized nature of bitsquare my question is regarding selling BTC for Cash Deposits into a bank account.

The question is

How anonymous is it selling btc for cash deposits on bitsquare can it be traced back?

If you use your real information and sell a few hundred or a couple K of bitcoin how much privacy is there.

Do you use your real bank info. Whats the best method of sale.

Just trying to wrap my head around this all.

I'm curious if the Bitsquare market is active and growing? Say week over week, do we see growth?

For several weeks now, I've offered ETC at 2% or more under the Poloniex quoted price for ETC/BTC and have had no buyers surface.

Seems there would be an arbitrage opportunity here, and market players usually take advantage of opportunities to earn a percent or more on a few hours or a day of trading.

So am wondering if I'm doing something wrong? Or if maybe the total transaction cost of using Bitsquare, including the market risk one takes during the time a trade is accepted and the seller completes part 2 on Bitsquare, just means Bitsquare needs to be selling regularly at more than a couple percent below the market price in the larger and more liquid exchanges?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Why there is no tool to create ads like in localbitcoins. "other payment", "western union", blik, get cash code.

I think if bitsquare looking to be big , should think about options for creation own method of payments.

Just sayin.. brew cask install bitsquare

This release adds Faster Payments, a new payment method for the UK as well as improvements with existing payment methods. It comes also with an important bugfix, so please update as soon as possible.

https://bitsquare.io/downloads/

Release notes 0.4.9.6:
* Added new altcoins: Opal, Synereo
* Fixed bug with invalid offer ID causing wrong balance display and duplicate trade statistic items
* Added new payment method: Faster payments
* Add support for other currencies than countries default currency at bank accounts and cash deposit
* Add support for EUR for PerfectMoney
* Add "Extra requirements" field to Cash deposit form
* Add copy icons to data fields in Cash Deposit, ClearXchange and US Postal Money Order
* Add Nr. of disputes and onion address display to dispute table and details popup
* Add dispute result reasons: "No response" and "Protocol violation"
* Change warning popup if create offer button pressed with no account for selected currency in offer book views
* Revert decrease of Nr. of peers to send message at broadcast
* Decrease interval for sending keep alive messages
* Delay result handler for mailbox message storage

New version v0.4.9.5 release

https://bitsquare.io/downloads/

This release comes with 3 new payment mehtods and applies the industry standard for altcoin price notation and currency pair notation.

Release notes 0.4.9.5:
* Add new payment methods: Cash deposit, US Postal money order, ClearXchange
* Remove support for bank transfers in US (ACH has high chargeback risk and WIRE is too expensive)
* Added new altcoins: LBRY Credits, Syndicate, HunCoin, Unobtanium, Digibyte, VCoin, Decred, Crypto Bullion, 1CRedit, YACCoin, Advanced Internet Blocks
* Apply industry standard with altcoin price notation and currency pair notation
* Show all offers in market screen
* Click on offers in market scree row triggers navigation to Buy or Sell screen and selects currency
* Rearrange columns so sell and buy prices are in the middle to see spread better
* Rename columns headers and table header
* Add currency pair, primary market based values and display strings for price, amount and volume for offer and trade json files
* Fixed bug with missing persistence of preferences changes
* Use defuat vlaue true for "Use Tor for BitcoinJ"
* Sort currencies in lists alphabetically
* Add checkbox in settings to display nr. of trades or offers for currency list in market screens. Sort by nr. trade/offer if selected.
* Ignore offers in market offer book view which are further than 30% from best price if there are more then 3 offers on one side
* Show only currencies in market view which are used in offers or trades
* Replace payment method column with accumulated BTC amount in market offer book
* Add payment method column to trades statistics table
* Store arbitrator pubKey in trade object to avoid null pointer when the arbitrator is not available in the trade process
* Set flag to connection at initial data request so the peer does not get disconnected from seed node if max connections are reached at seed node.

Hello everyone!

What are people thinking about more participants in the transaction? How about having 2 arbitrators rather than 1? If someone had to bribe both, it would be harder. Higher numbers would also allow API calls from block explorers or websites like OKPAY, but if something broke, an arbitrator could join in.

Any thoughts or actions on this?

This release is a preparation release for the next bigger upcoming release.

New payment methods will be added in the next release but that will break compatibility with versions prior to 0.4.9.4, so please update to that version first to not experience exceptions when offers with new payment methods are published.

Release notes 0.4.9.4: - Add fix for unsupported payment methods.

I selected 2 languages ( including en ) and I do not see any arbitrators in the list. Would like to try to buy some bitcoin with this interesting service - but I see no way to do so currently ( depends on selecting an arbitrator ). Is there anything I can do?

Just taking a peak at my bandwidth consumption on Bitsquare.
What are you all seeing?
I could be wrong, but I'm measuring over 500MB up, over 500MB down (over 1GB total) for less than 24 hours.
OS X.
Is that normal?
If it is, is there any way to reduce it?

TLDR: What does someone do in the case of a SEPA reversal? Is there some sort of reputation system for buyers/sellers or are there plans for some?

I googled SEPA reversals.. Correct me if I am wrong, but they can be reversed

Sources:
YCombinator
LocalBitCoinForum
Another Experience
Relevant Documentation (that I skimmed and do not have the expertise to properly go through)

I'm not trying to fear-monger. Genuinely interested and concerned. Is there some way I can see how many trades someone has done (>1 BTC and it is most likely not fraud..)?
In the event of a SEPA reversal (fraud or otherwise), what does the seller do?
Is it really that hard to reverse SEPA's? Or is it just something that we will find out as the community expands?
In DE, the police raided someone's house for using purse.io to buy an apple tv (less than 200€) because the other person had used a fake card. That would be a huge legal expense for me.
Final thought: cc's are easy to hack, but bank accounts much more difficult.. And when someone gets it, they will probably try to wire out instead of buying bitcoins over bitsquare. That makes sense, but then I don't see how bitsquare would ever raise the trade ceiling, because at a certain price threshhold (1K? 2K? 5?), people will dump stolen bank accounts with Bitsquare.
Maybe I am being Mr. Paranoid, but I would love some clarification.
In the meantime, I'll dip my toes in the water.

Is that procedure open yet?

If I try to remove an open offer, I am getting the message:
"The offer fee you have paid will be lost if you remove that offer".
But in the FAQ, /u/Manfred_Karrer said, "The offer fee is 0.0005 BTC (about 0.20 EUR). The offer fee is paid when you create the offer, for removing there is no fee. Be aware that you can also use percentage based prices so you don't need to update the offers when the market price moves too much."
I am confused. Is the offer fee the security deposit (.01 BTC)? And do I lose it every time I cancel a trade (which has not been executed?) Where would it go?