LocalBitcoins has been operating as a leading Bitcoin (BTC/USD) peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto exchange for the last 10 years but it recently announced that it was shutting down due to unfavourable market ...
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An Ode to LocalBitcoins (and a Lesson About Maintaining Bitcoin’s Public Goods)
Before the imposition of those compliance mechanisms, LocalBitcoins was a useful tool for people to enhance their privacy on-chain. But even after, the stripped-down service helped facilitate a native...
What Has Changed Since LocalBitcoins Transformed Venezuela’s Crypto Finances?
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Another cryptocurrency service goes offline today. Peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange site LocalBitcoins announced its closure, citi...
RIP LocalBitCoins – InsideBitcoins.com
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage With over ten years of operation, the Finnish peer-2-peer (P2P) bitcoin exchange, LocalBitcoins, has shut down. The platform offi...
LocalBitcoins To Shut Down After 10 Years
Due to the continuing bear market, LocalBitcoins is shutting down its bitcoin trading services, the exchange and ATM producer announced Thursday. LocalBitcoins, founded in 2012, said it has been...
LocalBitcoins Is Gone—But These P2P Bitcoin Exchanges Are the Next Best Thing
LocalBitcoins, one of the oldest and best-known Bitcoin exchanges, is closing after a decade of service, with the peer-to-peer platform citing the “ongoing very cold crypto-winter” as the reason for s...
LocalBitcoins Shuts Down After 10 Years
LocalBitcoins, a peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin trading platform located in Finland, has announced that it would be ceasing operations after more than a decade of providing services to its users. On Febru...
This Week in Crypto News: SEC, LocalBitcoins and Microsoft
This week in crypto news ended with a bang as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) started tightening its manacles on stablecoins. It sounded like all-out war was brewing at press time as...
LocalBitcoins Shutting Down. Here’s Why
Alex Dovbnya LocalBitcoins has decided to discontinue its service, citing unfavorable market conditions Prominent peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform LocalBitcoins is closing up shop after a whoppin...
LocalBitcoins Transformed Crypto Finances in Venezuela—Now What?
Another day, another crypto service shuts down. LocalBitcoins, a peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange platform, announced its demise, saying it “can no longer provide its Bitcoin trading service”...
Bitcoin Exchange LocalBitcoins Ends Its 10-Year-Long Bitcoin Haul
LocalBitcoins will suspend all its Bitcoin trading services from February 16. The Bitcoin exchange began in 2012 with the mission to “bring Bitcoin everywhere.” Finland-based LocalBitcoins, one of th...
P2P Exchange LocalBitcoins Closes Shop After 10 Years Of Business Amid Market Woes ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     With the bitcoin price trading more than 67% below its all-time high, not even LocalBitcoins, one of the oldest and most popular peer-to-peer bitcoin...
LocalBitcoins Becomes Latest Victim of Crypto Winter
Finland-based P2P Bitcoin exchange LocalBitcoins will close its doors after ten years as crypto winter proves too much. The exchange suspended new sign-ups on Feb. 9, 2023, and will stop trading on F...
LocalBitcoins shuts down after decade of P2P trading
After a decade of providing bitcoin trading and wallet services, LocalBitcoins has announced its shutdown. LocalBitcoins, the well-known peer-to-peer bitcoin trading platform, has declared the end of ...
LocalBitcoins closes down P2P crypto exchange service
Finland-based peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency platform LocalBitcoins is shutting down operations after serving its customers for more than 10 years. LocalBitcoins officially announced the terminatio...
LocalBitcoins Shutters Services Citing Harsh Crypto Winter
The p2p Bitcoin exchange has given users 12 months to withdraw their assets. LocalBitcoins, a Bitcoin peer-to-peer (p2p) platform based in Finland, is shutting its doors after over a decade of serving...
LocalBitcoins to Shut Down After 10 Years of Operation
LocalBitcoins, one of the earliest and most popular peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchanges, today announced that it is shuttering its business after more than ten years of operation. In its announcement, the ...
LocalBitcoins P2P marketplace to shutter services
Peer-to-Peer marketplace LocalBitcoins is discontinuing its services from Feb. 17, according to a Feb. 9 company statement. New sign-ups will be suspended as of Feb. 9, followed by the suspension of t...
LocalBitcoins Shuts Down Amid Crypto Winter
Peer-to-peer bitcoin trading platform LocalBitcoins will be discontinuing its services after over a decade of operations. The announcement makes LocalBitcoins the latest victim of the ongoing crypto w...
LocalBitcoins Closes Trading Platform After A Decade
Via an official statement, the popular peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto trading platform LocalBitcoins announced the discontinuation of its service. The company claims that the persistent downside pressure i...
Localbitcoins, the Pioneer P2P Bitcoin Exchange, Shuts Down After a Decade of Service Due to Crypto Winter – Bitcoin News
Localbitcoins, the Helsinki, Finland-based bitcoin exchange founded in 2012, is closing operations after over a decade of service. The company’s operators attribute the shutdown to the “ongoing crypto...
Bitcoin exchange LocalBitcoins set to shut down this month
Bitcoin (BTC/USD) peer-to-peer (P2P) exchange LocalBitcoins has today issued a service closure statement stating that it is set to shut down this month due to the “ongoing very cold crypto winter.” Th...
LocalBitcoins shuts down its services after 10 years of operation
In the most recent blow to the cryptocurrency market, LocalBitcoins, a peer-to-peer Bitcoin (BTC) exchange and one of the early crypto trading platforms that served as a gate for individuals to enter ...
LocalBitcoins shuts down after a decade in operation
Peer-to-peer bitcoin trading service LocalBitcoins is closing down after a decade in operation. “Regardless of our efforts to overcome challenges during the ongoing very cold crypto-winter...
Localbitcoins, Crypto.com, Other Providers Suspend Services for Russians Under EU Rules – Bitcoin News
Complying with the latest EU sanctions targeting Russia, well-known cryptocurrency platforms like Localbitcoins, Blockchain.com, and Crypto.com have started to restrict or terminate services for Russi...
Localbitcoins user docked over illegal activities 1
A Localbitcoins user has been arrested by authorities in the United States after he was caught running an unlicensed crypto service. According to the report, the criminal used Localbitcoins and anothe...
Localbitcoins User Pleads Guilty to Running Unlicensed Crypto Business — Faces Up to 5 Years in Prison – Regulation Bitcoin News
A cryptocurrency trader has been convicted in the U.S. for operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business using Localbitcoins and Paxful. He faces up to five years in federal prison and a possibl...
LocalBitcoins Clocks 300,000 Mobile App Downloads, With Africa Making a Mark
After reaching 200,000 mobile app downloads on iOS and Android in two months, LocalBitcoins has scaled the heights by crossing the 300,000 mark. The world’s leading peer-to-peer (P2P) Bitcoin marketpl...
LocalBitcoins Cuts Fees to Zero for Ukrainians Both Locally and Abroad
To ease transactions amongst Ukrainians as they face the Russian Army Invasion in their nation, the world’s leading peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace, LocalBitcoins, has removed all fees for them both ...
LocalBitcoins Drops Fees for Ukrainian Users
Peer-to-peer trading platform LocalBitcoins has removed all fees for Ukrainian users in a show of solidarity. Citizens of the country can now receive bitcoin and convert it into the local currency wit...
LocalBitcoins Hits New Milestone, Reaching 200,000 Mobile App Downloads
LocalBitcoins is scaling the heights because its mobile app available on iOS and Android surpassed 200,000 downloads. The world’s leading peer-to-peer (P2P) Bitcoin marketplace is now available in 19 ...