I made an error in my initial attempt to break it down, so deleted.

The goal is definitely to have it work both ways (at least it was in 2021, tbh I don’t follow Monero development closely) but it will take a hard fork of Monero for it to work.

https://comit.network/blog/2021/07/02/transaction-presigning/#it-doesnt-work-on-present-day-monero but basically in its current form you cannot “buy” Bitcoin with XMR. You must “offer” then “sell” your XMR for Bitcoin. The actual on-chain swap must be initiated by the Bitcoin/buy side.

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Are Atomic Swaps Still Experimental?

I made an error in my initial attempt to break it down, so deleted.

The goal is definitely to have it work both ways (at least it was in 2021, tbh I don’t follow Monero development closely) but it will take a hard fork of Monero for it to work.

[Here is a link to a post by Comit breaking it down,](https://comit.network/blog/2021/07/02/transaction-presigning/#it-doesnt-work-on-present-day-monero) but basically in its current form you cannot “buy” Bitcoin with XMR. You must “offer” then “sell” your XMR for Bitcoin. The actual on-chain swap must be initiated by the Bitcoin/buy side. 