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Popular peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange LocalBitcoins is shutting down after more than 10 years of serving customers.
The post End of an Era: LocalBitcoins Ceases Operations Amid Crypto Winter appeared first on BitPinas.
After 10 years, Finland's LocalBitcoins is closing. (Read More)
With over ten years of operation, the Finnish peer-2-peer (P2P) bitcoin exchange, LocalBitcoins, has shut down. The platform officially shared this sad news with its [...]
<p>LocalBitcoins, a Finland-based peer-to-peer (P2P) Bitcoin (BTC) exchange founded in June 2012, has announced the timeline for the closure of its Bitcoin trading services. The exchange announced the development on Thursday in a statement on its website.</p><p>The operator noted that LocalBitcoins can longer provide its BTC trading services as its efforts to weather “the ongoing very crypto winter” has been futile. The announcement comes after <a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/whats-next-for-crypto-after-the-chaos-of-2022/" target="_blank" rel="follow">a chaotic 2022</a> saw the crypto industry battle with the collapse of several crypto projects, including once-leading Bahamas-based crypto exchange, FTX. </p><p>Due to <a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/crypto-winter-are-we-really-in-front-of-a-bear-market/" target="_blank" rel="follow">prolonged crypto winter</a> or sustained declining prices of digital assets and other factors, the market capitalization of the cryptocurrency industry <a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/crypto-market-cap-fell-by-641-to-829-billion-in-2022-report/" target="_blank" rel="follow">collapsed by 64.1%</a> from $2.3 trillion at the start of last year to $829 billion by year-end. </p><p>“We are sad to share that regardless of our efforts to overcome challenges during the ongoing very cold crypto winter, we have regretfully concluded that LocalBitcoins can no longer provide its Bitcoin trading service,” LocalBitcoins announced.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="und" dir="ltr">???? <a href="https://t.co/4j5M7iZkaD">pic.twitter.com/4j5M7iZkaD</a></p>— LocalBitcoins (@LocalBitcoins) <a href="https://twitter.com/LocalBitcoins/status/1623683223178862593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2023</a></blockquote><p>Data from CoinDance <a href="https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/ALL" target="_blank" rel="follow">shows that</a> LocalBitcoins has been generating between $5 million to $10 million in weekly volumes in the past months, in sharp contrast to its peak periods in 2017 when it generated over $100 million weekly in trading volumes.</p><p>LocalBitcoins Gives 12 Months Withdrawal Period</p><p>In preparation for its closure, LocalBitcoins has encouraged all its customers to withdraw their funds on its platform within the next 12 months or earlier. This is even as P2P BTC exchange announced suspension of new signs up on its platform on Thursday (today). </p><p>Furthermore, the company noted that it will halt BTC trading on its platform on the 16th of this month and further bar the use of the platform’s wallets on the same day. However, the wallets will be available for withdrawal of funds, LocalBitcoins said. </p><p>In addition, starting from January 17th, 2023, LocalBitcoins' customers will only be able to login into the platform to withdraw their Bitcoins as the trading and wallet services will no longer be available starting from that date.</p><p>Meanwhile, Finance Magnates reported in 2021 that Venezuelan authorities <a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/venezuelan-authorities-detain-two-alleged-localbitcoins-scammers/" target="_blank" rel="follow">detained two scammers</a> over their alleged involvement in a $136,000 scam committed through LocalBitcoins. </p> This article was written by Solomon Oladipupo at www.financemagnates.com.
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.” The Helsinki-based exchange has been in service for the last 10 years making it one of the longest-serving and best P2P cryptocurrency exchanges. It ...
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LocalBitcoins’ customers have 12 months to withdraw their cryptocurrencies from the LocalBitcoins wallet but are advised to do so immediately.
Two months after reaching 200,000 mobile app downloads on iOS and Android, LocalBitcoins has scaled the heights by crossing the 300,000 mark. (Read More)
To ease transactions amongst Ukrainians as they face the Russian Army Invasion in their nation, P2P Bitcoin marketplace LocalBitcoins has removed all transaction fees for them both locally and abroad. (Read More)
LocalBitcoins, the world’s leading P2P Bitcoin marketplace, is scaling the heights because its mobile app available on iOS and Android surpassed 200,000 downloads, with 5 more languages incorporated. (Read More)
The peer-to-peer trading platform launched an iOS version of its mobile app three weeks after launching on Android.
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