New to Bisq 2?
Watch the video about Bisq 2 and the overall roadmap at: https://bisq.network/blog/bisq-2-now-in-beta/
For more detail information see: https://bisq.wiki/Bisq_2
ATTENTION: The Bisq 2 application has been renamed from Bisq 2 (with a space) to Bisq2 (renamed at version 2.1.0). When you install the new version the old Bisq 2 application remains in place and should be manually deleted or uninstalled to avoid to be used accidentally which would cause database corruption. Note, that the data directory must NOT be deleted, only the application.
Release notes
⭐ Reputation System Enhancements
With the release of version 2.1.1, the reputation system has been updated to enhance security and improve the trading experience.
Key changes include:
- Trade limits are now directly tied to the seller's reputation score.
- Reputation gained through burned or bonded BSQ will double over the first year.
- Relaxed reputation requirements for trades up to 25 USD.
- The minimum required reputation score has been removed.
For more details, visit: https://bisq.wiki/Reputation
💬 Chat rooms consolidated
In response to user feedback regarding an excess of chat rooms and confusion over which room to use, particularly with redundancy in support rooms, we have streamlined the chat experience by consolidating the rooms into two categories:
- Discussion
- Support
Additionally, all private chats have been merged into a single private chat at the "Discussion" section. Messages from the previous rooms have been transferred to the new corresponding rooms.
The only other chats that remain are the chat in the offer book and the private trade chat for open trades.
✨ New features
- Move Reputation related content to new main menu item
- Add more filter options to the offer book list
- Rearrange content in settings
- Add new UI related to Network related content
🔧 Improvements
- Improve sorting in offer book list
- Persist user profile images to improve performance
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fix notification issues
Verification
For a detailed description on how to verify your Bisq installer please have a look at our wiki: https://bisq.wiki/Downloading_and_installing#Verify_installer_file
Url of the signing key (Alejandro García): https://bisq.network/pubkey/E222AA02.asc
Full fingerprint: B493 3191 06CC 3D1F 252E 19CB F806 F422 E222 AA02
Import the key:
curl https://bisq.network/pubkey/E222AA02.asc | gpg --import
GPG prints a confusion warning: "This key is not certified with a trusted signature!" - See https://serverfault.com/questions/569911/how-to-verify-an-imported-gpg-key for background information what it means.
How to verify signatures?
gpg --digest-algo SHA256 --verify BINARY{.asc*,}
Replace BINARY with the file you downloaded (e.g. Bisq-2.0.4.dmg)
Known issues with installation
MacOS:
We removed notarization from our build pipeline because of of the risk of Apple certification revocation (see bisq-network/bisq#6341). Unfortunately this will require extra steps when installing Bisq on macOS.
Please follow the guide at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491 in the section If you want to open an app that hasn’t been notarized or is from an unidentified developer
If you are running already macOS Ventura (13.0+) you need to do following to be able to start Bisq:
Enter following command in Apple Terminal:
sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Bisq2.app
Hit enter and you will be prompted to enter your password to be able to execute the command as super user.
After running this successfully you should be able to start Bisq as always.
Windows:
We removed the developer code signing because of the same reason as with Apple.
For Windows you just have to ignore the warning after you have verified the installation file yourself and proceed with the installation.
There is a known issue with Anti Virus software. We got several reports from users running into different problems. Either the AV software blocks Bisq or Tor, delete files in the data directory [2] or app directory [1]) or cause such a long delay at startup that Tor gets terminated and a file remains locked which can cause that Bisq cannot be started afterwards. To resolve that you need to restart Windows then the lock get released. We are working on solutions to fix those issues.
If you use Crypto currencies on your Windows system be aware that Windows is much more vulnerable to malware than Linux or OSX. Consider to use a dedicated non-Windows system when dealing with cryptocurrencies.
[1] Application directory (contains application installation files):
C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\Bisq2
[2] Data directory (contains all Bisq data):
C:\Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\Bisq2
Linux:
Hint for Debian users:
If you have problems starting Bisq on Debian use: /opt/bisq2/bin/Bisq2
If your Linux distro does not support .deb files please follow this instruction:
cd ~/Downloads
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
ar x ../Bisq-64bit-2.0.4.deb
sudo tar Jxvf data.tar.xz
sudo cp -rp opt/Bisq2 /opt/
That instruction is not tested on many different distros. If you encounter problems please report it in a Github issue so we can improve it.