2018.04.05 Growth call

[ripcurlx]

• Date: Thu April 5th
• Time: 11:15a–12:15p Pacific / 8:15p–9:15p Central European
• Place: YouTube livestream, see Call Details below

If you want to help Bisq grow, then this is the meeting to attend!

Everyone is welcome, and there's no need to RSVP or register, but if you do plan to attend, please add a 👍 below so we have an idea how many people will be there.

Note also that you can subscribe to the Bisq DAO Google Calendar to get notifications about this call and other Bisq events. See https://bisq.network/calendar.

Agenda

You'll find the general agenda of our growth calls here: https://github.com/bisq-network/growth/blob/master/docs/growth-meeting.md

As decided on our first growth call (6th of Dec '17) we will focus all our efforts for the next couple of months on increasing liquidity on the Bisq network.

Before we can grow the number of overall traders on the Bisq network, we first need to make sure that we have plenty of liquidity available in major trading pairs, esp. EUR and USD.

This means that anyone who considers themselves a potential 'market maker' or 'liquidity provider' is especially welcome on this call, to help us brainstorm ways to make Bisq an attractive place to be for you. We already have a number of ideas, and are looking to get your feedback.

Note that while we're happy to have pro and semi-pro traders serve as liquidity providers, we're also looking for anyone who simply has a need to sell BTC on a regular basis, e.g. for basic cash flow purposes.

This week will be about:

• GBP/BTC liquidity week
• New markets (Mexico, Africa)
• New payment methods/options for 0.7.0 (Argentinian banks, WeChat?)
• What happened in the BCH/BTC market?

Feel free to add any remarks below or points you want to discuss on this weeks growth call!

Call details

We are streaming the meeting live on YouTube this time:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFu6enK_LDo

You can just watch the live stream and add comments in the live chat or if you want you can join the call by using following Google Hangout invitation link:

• https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/hvygz6kjprebnod6ly6nwx6kz4e

Comments welcome

Please add comments below with any questions you have or regarding any other topics you'd like to discuss on this call. See also the open issues in this repository.

Hope to see you there!

[ripcurlx]

I think @flix1 mentioned it already in some Slack conversation (can't find it atm), but it would be great if we could talk today also about how we could scale the liquidity efforts so it's not just a single stream process.

[ripcurlx]

Maybe @fedegrc could join us today to talk about the current situation in Argentina?

[meapistol]

I cannot join the growth call, due to a social event. Concerning WeChat:
WeChat shows public (what is public is determined by the user) messages and pictures when a friend is added, as well as a chosen location (not necessarily the true location, just what the user wrote).
When a friend is deleted the conversation on the phone which is deleting disappears, but not on the phone of the deleted friend. This is important to know for arbitration, since the buyer must be able to prove a payment in case of a dispute. So buyers should not delete a temporary friend until the trade is completed.
As I said in another post: the users bank must be in mainland (?) China and in order to use Bisq the trader must be outside China (unless one can use Tor in China).
For me Tor and Bisq worked using two VPNs in Wuhan, but not using one. Using one VPN works for some minutes maybe up to some hours before the GFWC notices and drops the packages.

Somebody from Hong Kong should be consulted about what works there.

[fedegrc]

Unfortunately, I cannot join the call today. I'll try to analyze alternatives to buy/sell BTCs in Argentina. At the moment I've found three bitcoin exchanges:

• https://www.ripio.com/
• https://www.satoshitango.com/
• https://bitex.la/

I have only information about charges buying BTCs in SatoshiTango:

• Bank debits tax: 1.215%
• Buy Bitcoins fee: 2%
  (Wire transfers are free in Argentina)