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<p><a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/mpolavieja/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/mpolavieja">@mpolavieja</a> sure Paxful, Localbitcoins and other P2P websites have done an amazing job making it easy for people to buy and sell Bitcoin in almost any country... just the same as Shapeshift did a great job making it very easy to exchange cryptos back in the day... I even interviewed <a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/jeremias-kangas-bitcoin-cannot-be-shut-down-1371225649" rel="nofollow">Jeremias Kangas</a> (Localbitcoins) and <a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/erik-voorhees-new-frontier-1374794545" rel="nofollow">Erik Voorhees</a> (Shapeshift) for Bitcoin Magazine back in 2013.</p>
<p>But they all have the same problem: being centralized companies/websites they have all had to submit to KYC, AML and impose surveillance on their users. They have also had to censor many transactions (for example F2F cash) and block many countries. Just like most centralized exchanges.</p>
<p>I will not forget that the reason I support Bisq is that it is <strong>censorship resistant</strong>, <strong>private</strong>, decentralized and keeps users in control of their funds and data.</p>
<p>That being said... Bisq can and should learn a lot from other P2P exchanges where it can... UX being one important area.</p>

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