I wouldn't trust any stables either. As for Bitcoin I'm surprised that LN isn't used more.

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FixedFloat meetup on the Azores 🇵🇹

‼️With the help of FixedFloat we're organizing a meetup on the Azores🇵🇹 next week!

Join us on the 13th of September at the Bitcoin-accepting Intz48 in Ponta Delgada🇵🇹

👉Sign up here:
http://OrangeFren.com/event/26

Or here:
https://Meetup.com/ponta-delgada-fixedfloat-com-bitcoin-meetup/events/310870354/

I should start charging them per message like some egirls are doing

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Stats for August

Stats for searches on OrangeFren.com in August👀

Why is Bitcoin below 25%? Why are people moving to USDC?

XMR: 42.76%
BTC: 24.73%
LTC: 7.82%
ETH: 7.33%
USDT: 5.76%
USDC: 2.73%
SOL: 1.84%
ZEC: 1.09%
BTCLN: 1.06%
TRX: 0.55%
DOGE: 0.41%
ZANO: 0.33%
XRP: 0.32%
DAI: 0.32%
FIRO: 0.26%
BNB: 0.22%
BCH: 0.17%
ADA: 0.15%

It's based on users of OrangeFren.com who complained and any user of Intercambio.app that was asked for extra info. We no longer have FF listed on Intercambio, because they required us to start logging and we declined.

I'll check it out!

Based on stats from our users FF demands personal information for roughly 1 in 10 000 ~ 20 000 swaps.

Our currency support table is dynamic and refreshes every few minutes. If FF isn't shown as supporting LN then it's because they briefly disabled it

They have by far the worst affiliate program as far as we're concerned, because they have the lowest fees. However, they are a favourite for most people.

On that note, I wish more services had LN. eXch was a very attractive alternative to FF, because they had LN and just as low fees, while having no KYC.

Good suggestion. I'll make sure we clarify it. And no, only if a never-KYC service demands KYC from you will we cover.

You're right about the colours, but it wasn't intentional. This is a bug from the latest release of mempool.space and the official instance fixed it. We could fix it too, but it does fit quite well, because most nodes and miners won't accept <1sat/vB txs, so they are a bit risky to rely on.

That said, we made sure our node is connected to other <1sat/vB nodes, so if you want to broadcast such a tx you can do so here: https://mempool.orangefren.com/tx/push and it ought to reach the miners that accept such txs.

Usually they'll ask questions about who you are, where you live, how you obtained the coins you sent them and proofs for all of the above. Generally all of this takes about a week. Whenever such cases are reported to us we always request FF send us whatever proof they have on their end that the coins they got were tainted.

If you're planning on swapping a large sum with FixedFloat, and are not in a hurry, then please consider reaching out to me or our customer support and we can generally get a prescreening from FF to ensure a guaranteed no-KYC from them. By that I mean they'll check your address before you deposit. This takes a few days to do usually and it's a courtesy on their end for us and our users so they can always decline doing it, but so far they've always done so.

The purpose is that we very often need to find some tx to do arbitration between a user and an exchange. So far we've used external block explorers, but now we'll be using our own trusted ones.

We'll get the sub-1-sat txs asap.

Thanks for point out the ref link - removed.

Apologies. Yes, we've been DDoSed a bit today and they manage to knock OrangeFren.com offline briefly. We should be online once more.
Thanks for the suggestion regarding the onion!

Initially, I think the rate was even better (0.5%). But after the XMR delistings they changed where they got their rate and started using Bisq as an oracle.

The rates we show on our homepage are relative to CoinGecko. Of course an exchange might be lying about their rate, but in that case we take action against them. Nowadays the best service, if you value a Tor mirror, no JS, and a promise never to KYC the users tends to Xchange.me.

Interesting. Majestic Bank used to have a much better rate than other never-KYC, no JS, Tor mirror, type services. Their base fee was 2%. eXch for instance started at 5.5% for anyone buying XMR. Xchange has 3.6% as of writing.

A lot of very valuable services have shut down recently. AgoraDesk, eXch, now Majestic Bank.
Majestic Bank definitely had their issues, but they'll still be missed.

We're keeping it secret for now 

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92% of Lightning payments we routed went through a hub

• 2953 payments routed over 1.5 years
• 24 channels sold to plebs
• Fewer than 1 in 13 payments were between plebs!!

The rest? Their previous or next hop was a hub🐇

I've come up with a solution! Thank you for the brainstorming guys! <3

It's not ideal, but it will be very expensive to manipulate. And I think it's a better solution, than what anyone has.

We'll get it implemented asap.

The issue I'm concerned with is the employees of an exchange making swaps and then spamming reviews. I'm not sure how to resolve this.

Preventing fakes is a major issue. Even if we required a valid swap ID then it's very simple for an exchange to provide however many it takes to flood the reviews.

There was some recent attention regarding LN when Tether announced they'll launch USDT on LN using Taproot Assets. However, I've noticed that although they happily reply to my comments praising the technology they seem not to notice any of my comments asking about whether there will be a freeze-function. Must be some weird internet issue where some comments get through, yet others do not. Maybe they're routing the comments over LN, hence why same fail to reach them.

Currently USDT has a freeze-function on all platforms except one - Liquid.

We've tried so hard to promote LN though... Sponsored and helped organize the Bitcoin Film Fest, paid for Satograms to deliver ads to every LN user, we have an LN node, we sell channels from it on Amboss. We have direct channels with exchanges that support LN which we list as well as companies we often collab with (for instance Cryptosteel). The table on our homepage marks BTC, XMR, USDT and BTC on LN support for every exchange.

Good idea. In the past we tried launching a forum, but it wasn't a success.

Good idea! We'll work on that.

Thank you!!!
We've removed them, this isn't acceptable.

Thank you for the report!
Our searches always take into account the mins and maxes for each service.

We've delisted Hellex and will re-add them when either they fix their responses (they previously had a good min amount field) or until we put together a conservative estimate of their min amounts ourselves.

We check rates slightly more often than once per 5 min.