Bisq Light Client Initiative Project

[paid2]

February bump!

The project keeps moving forward, friends!

The headless app (without UI) is almost ready now, you can see the recent updates on the following link: https://github.com/thecockatiel/bisq_light_client

It's great to see the project moving forward, cockatiel is producing a ton of work very quickly!
By the way, as always feel free to join the SimpleX Chat group to follow the ongoing development/discussions about the project:

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[paid2]

Bump for this project that will benefit our entire community!

[arabspaceship123]

Thanks OrangeFren and eXch for announcing the project. It's advantageous building Bisq 1 with Electrum because light clients aren't eating resources & they're a strategic choice for ppl using older processors. I've seen regular commits from thecockatiel in git repo he's industrious. It's a superb initiative which deserves a triumphant completion.

OrangeFren and eXch are happy to announce the public project aiming to initiate development of Bisq 1 light client in order to make it lightweight and usable for everyone.

[paid2]

As usual, eXch is keeping its word, and has already distributed two rewards (for a total of 1.25 BTC) for the development of the Bisq Light Client

• The first reward of 0.55 BTC was sent at the end of December to Cockatiel with TXID 3fcebcf2043abbc4ad60cd0af1b085533ad6f1fe918b892ba408c60524fa367b.
  Details from the SimpleX group:
  

• Yesterday another 0.7 BTC was sent to Cockatiel in 44232a707d69a27d449885f2d920c441980964e119fed61a2585c6913449f972.
  Message from the SimpleX group:
  

As a Bisq user who is quite frustrated by the software's bugs, heaviness and punitive synchronization, I'm glad to see that the Light Client project is moving forward quickly and in the right direction!


Like always, everyone is welcome to join the SimpleX Chat group to follow the ongoing development/discussions about the project:

SimpleX Group url

[dkbit98]

As usual, eXch is keeping its word, and has already distributed two rewards (for a total of 1.25 BTC) for the development of the Bisq Light Client

Great to see things are moving forward with Bisq Light client, but it would be better if more developers join the project to speed up things.
Are there any estimates when can we expect to see early testing release in public that can be tested by general users?

[paid2]

Great to see things are moving forward with Bisq Light client, but it would be better if more developers join the project to speed up things.
Are there any estimates when can we expect to see early testing release in public that can be tested by general users?

It should be a matter of weeks before we can test the CLI version, as per one recent answer from Cockatiel in the SimpleX group:

[apogio]

I am planning to engage as much as I can, starting from the weekend. I have the environment ready. I hope we will decrease the overall time needed for testing.

It’s a lot of work that needs to be done, but I am optimistic.

[arabspaceship123]

He's got to be working hard because it's a lot of btc to be given to 1 dev

As usual, eXch is keeping its word, and has already distributed two rewards (for a total of 1.25 BTC) for the development of the Bisq Light Client

[paid2]

He's got to be working hard because it's a lot of btc to be given to 1 dev

Indeed he did a lot of work by himself. Let me quote eXch's message:

[...]given the fast and continous progress daily and also given it's a type of work traditionally done by a team of approx. 3-5 people, but in our case only by 1 person.

[paid2]

April bump!

The project keeps moving forward, friends!

The headless app (without UI) is almost ready now, you can see the recent updates on the following link: https://github.com/thecockatiel/bisq_light_client

It's great to see the project moving forward, cockatiel is producing a ton of work very quickly!
By the way, as always feel free to join the SimpleX Chat group to follow the ongoing development/discussions about the project:

Please join our SimpleX Chat group to talk on topic:

SimpleX Group url

[Global.node]

Bisq is not completely decentralized. It has central nodes. Without them, Bisq would not be able to function.

These central points of contact are used to exchange offers and bring buyers and sellers together. This is anything but decentralized.

[arabspaceship123]

Are you talking about Bisq or Bisq Light Client Initiative Project ?

Bisq is not completely decentralized. It has central nodes. Without them, Bisq would not be able to function.

These central points of contact are used to exchange offers and bring buyers and sellers together. This is anything but decentralized.

[paid2]

Bisq is not completely decentralized. It has central nodes. Without them, Bisq would not be able to function.

These central points of contact are used to exchange offers and bring buyers and sellers together. This is anything but decentralized.

It seems your understanding of Bisq network architecture is very narrow since you stated some false facts there.

If you ever looked at the code you would know that the order data is stored in the DAO chain that is only possible to get from online Tor peers. This works exactly like P2P network In Bitcoin Core, thus, Bisq trading data is actually decentralized to the full extent of this term.

Please refrain from making misinformative claims in future unless you get a bit more familiar with the Bisq's network architecture.

[NotATether]

What is the future of this project now that eXch lost pretty much all of their BTC?

[arabspaceship123]

eXch's funding Bisq Light Client Initiative Project so how's the project going to have a future if eXch's team isn't available. There's reports about $34M seizure I didn't know they've lost all of their btc.

What is the future of this project now that eXch lost pretty much all of their BTC?

[examplens]

eXch's funding Bisq Light Client Initiative Project so how's the project going to have a future if eXch's team isn't available. There's reports about $34M seizure I didn't know they've lost all of their btc.

What is the future of this project now that eXch lost pretty much all of their BTC?

We don't know if all eXch funds were seized. We will probably never get confirmation, whether it is true or not.

As for the Bisq Light Client project, it's now been 8+ months since this thread was started. By now, most of the project should have been completed. In any case, it is not the end of the world if there is no eXch as an investor. Good projects will find their way

[apogio]

As for the Bisq Light Client project, it's now been 8+ months since this thread was started. By now, most of the project should have been completed. In any case, it is not the end of the world if there is no eXch as an investor. Good projects will find their way

Has anybody tried to enter their SimpleX channel to see the project's updates?
Perhaps @paid2 may have some feedback about it. The channel is free of course, so I can join and see for myself, I just don't have too much time to read the older messages.

[arabspaceship123]

If eXch doesn't post we won't get confirmation how many btc were seized. Good projects find their way they'll succeed after funding stops. Bisq Light Client Initiative Project's going to be used by many ppl so I hope it gets completed.

We don't know if all eXch funds were seized. We will probably never get confirmation, whether it is true or not.

As for the Bisq Light Client project, it's now been 8+ months since this thread was started. By now, most of the project should have been completed. In any case, it is not the end of the world if there is no eXch as an investor. Good projects will find their way

[RFLGCoin]

A decentralized, lightweight Bisq could lower everyday users’ barriers to trade without surrendering custody.
A light client might need to rely on a network of semi-trusted relays or an SPV-like system. Perhaps drawing from how Bitcoin SPV wallets work (verifying via headers/merkle proofs) could help so users don’t have to sync the entire order book or blockchain. Regarding the central node issues, maybe the community could decentralize that function by having multiple volunteer-run nodes or a rotating federation to reduce single points of failure.

[arabspaceship123]

AI generated ?

A decentralized, lightweight Bisq could lower everyday users’ barriers to trade without surrendering custody.
A light client might need to rely on a network of semi-trusted relays or an SPV-like system. Perhaps drawing from how Bitcoin SPV wallets work (verifying via headers/merkle proofs) could help so users don’t have to sync the entire order book or blockchain. Regarding the central node issues, maybe the community could decentralize that function by having multiple volunteer-run nodes or a rotating federation to reduce single points of failure.