***SideShift.ai*** Review 2023: A No Sign Up Cross-Bridge Swap

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SideShift.ai Review 2023: A No Sign Up Cross-Bridge Swap

blockdyor

***SideShift.ai*** - No Sign-Up Crypto Exchange

SideShift.ai - No Sign-Up Crypto Exchange

UlfMoby

Any service similar to Fixed Float?

Bitcoiner1

Here are a few options for simple swaps

https://changelly.com/
https://***sideshift.ai***/
https://stealthex.io

Here are a few options for simple swaps 

- https://changelly.com/
- https://sideshift.ai/
- https://stealthex.io/
- https://simpleswap.io/

TheBTCManual

The simplest method to convert wrapped BTC is to utilize a no-KYC exchange like

https://***sideshift.ai***

We need to drain OTC desks. They are turning BTC into paper

bitcoin_beginners

This is a call to action for all Bitcoin owners: whether you're a Bitcoiner, a Shitcoiner or just a tourist.

ETFs are backed by actual BTC acquired from OTC desks, which do not move the market. 

## But where does the liquidity come from?

It comes from us. What do you think staking is for (is 10% APY really worth it)?  But that's not all.
**In classic FTX fashion, they will first utilize your staking, then your deposit, and finally, the wrapped Bitcoins, most of which are essentially custodial IOUs centrally backed by a single exchange.**

### As a result, your BTC on aforementioned services will be replaced by paper bitcoin. 
Subsequently, the OTC desk will attempt to repurchase all of its debts from the market gradually to prevent any significant market fluctuations, if they can't they will pull the usual tricks. Have you ever wondered why during unexpected market movements all the exchanges **go into maintenance, they pause withdrawals and start pumping out stacking promotions**? **That's not a coincidence or market manipulation, that's to rebuild the liquidity.**


## So, if you have even just $10 worth of Bitcoin lying within reach of an OTC desk or exchange, it's time to take action. 

This includes (from worst to worse):
a) Bitcoin held in any staking service (even decentralized ones)
b) Bitcoin held on any exchange
c) Bitcoin held in crypto or Bitcoin to fiat cards
d) Wrapped Bitcoins, excluding L-BTC and Lightning
e) Bitcoin held in custodial Lightning wallets unless they have a proof of reserve

## What you should do:
a) Temporarily withdraw your Bitcoin to a self-custodial solution (if you can't do all 5, please do at least the first 4)

If you'd rather not deal with mainchain fees or navigate Lightning liquidity, and that's completely understandable, **withdraw to [Aqua](https://aquawallet.io/) or other liquid wallets**, better if they support lightning-liquid interoperability so you can keep using lightning without going custodial.

The **simplest method** to convert wrapped BTC is to utilize a no-KYC exchange like 

- https://sideshift.ai/  
- https://fixedfloat.com/ 

to swap into Liquid or Lightning to your Aqua wallet.

The **best method** is to redeem them from the exchange that is emitting the wrapped token so that they are forced to release the reserves (eg. BTCB should be redeemed from binance).

**Please note: if you're looking to avoid mainchain fees, do not use Muun, as it isn't a Lightning wallet.**

b) Encourage your friends to take the same action.

## If we all do our part we can stop or limit their shenanigans and get the omega candle.

Please spread the word, rewrite this post to make it more beginner friendly, do whatever it takes.


037bedfa93

SouthXChange: https://www.southxchange.com/
FixedFloat: https://fixedfloat.com/
SideShift: https://***sideshift.ai***

List of Exchanges that support Deposit and Withdraw via Lightning Network

### There are NO-KYC exchanges or swaps

- SouthXChange: https://www.southxchange.com/
- FixedFloat: https://fixedfloat.com/
- SideShift: https://sideshift.ai/eth/ln
- ZigZag: https://zigzag.io/

happy

Aqua uses a custodian company called ***sideshift.ai*** and the address is a custodian address they temporarily

Aqua Wallet by JAN3 - Grandma Can Use It, but You Can't

Funny enough, I can talk for hours about Bitcoin but know almost nothing about how the other crypto world works with all the bridges, swaps, etc. (because Crypto is crap, right?) But unfortunately, I ended up in a situation where I had to receive USDT over Tron from my brother. Twice.

Coincidentally, I listened to the WBD podcast with Samson Mow where he talked about this Aqua wallet, how it combines the best of both worlds - non-custodial, easy to use, can receive USDT and swap to BTC, all this stuff. So, I downloaded it, generated a Tron address, received USDT, and immediately converted it to BTC. It worked like a charm.

Fast forward a couple of weeks and we had to repeat the same process again, so I just told my brother to send it over and prepared to convert it to BTC, but the notification was not popping up. I waited a bit, force-closed the wallet, opened it again, refreshed every second - the transaction was not there. So, there is a Tron blockchain explorer - I thought - so we should look there. I searched for my Tron address in the block explorer and found, to my big surprise, hundreds of transactions, different balances for different tokens - a very active Tron address. It didn't really look like the address you used once, but the latest transaction was there and it was correct.

Then I realized it's not my address after all. Aqua uses a custodian company called sideshift.ai and the address is a custodian address they temporarily use to redirect to your Aqua wallet. Quite confusing, I felt the same way you feel when somebody hands you over an Android phone when you've been using the iPhone all your life.

Expecting the worst, I opened a ticket with Jan3, but they said I needed to go directly to sideshift. Sideshift's policy on the website says the recovery of the tokens is a chargeable event with $200 USD + on-chain fee. It didn't sound very promising, but still better than nothing. So, I clicked the chat bubble and started typing.

To my great and very pleasant surprise, a guy named Mac was able to get the full amount of the original transfer directly to my Aqua wallet within 30 minutes since I opened a ticket.

So, is it a happy end? Not sure. 
Although the support was really amazing and I'm grateful for getting my funds back, probably it's still not safe to give this wallet to your grandma. 
I think people familiar with Tron and using USDT transactions via Tron on the daily basis cannot imagine that the Tron on Aqua is not working the same way as Tron on any other shitcoin wallet. Maybe another reason to make fun of bitcoin maxis, as the current sentiment that I see is that bitcoin maxis are like boomers. Totally disagree, but it is what it is. 
Do not recommend Aqua to somebody who is an active Tron user. Do not give it to your grandma (yet?). 
And do not expect that it works like bitcoin wallet, read the fine print.


Catcher

How to prepare for high mining fees, what about Liquid?

025738dda8

I've set aside some of my funds to Liquid for that purpose. I also used it to store Tether in the past, as it is an asset on Liquid. Tools are Jade Hardware Wallet, or Green Wallet on Pc or mobile. You can use Sideswap to get Liquid to your LBTC wallet using the Peg-in tool, and peg-out for the reverse.  Boltz.Exchange allows changing from Lbtc to Lightning and vice versa. Sideshift.ai is also an option. Liquid and Lightning are good options to mitigate fee and it is good to be ready.

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dtonon

You can also check out something like

https://fixedfloat.com/
https://***sideshift.ai***/btc/busd

If you

You can also check out something like

- https://fixedfloat.com/
- https://sideshift.ai/btc/busd

If you want to swap into BTC on the base chain, Liquid or Lightning

FixedFloat's Lightning and Litecoin Networks down for almost 2 weeks

falcoonbr

You can try using

https://***sideshift.ai***/
https://boltz.exchange/

You can try using

- https://sideshift.ai/
- https://boltz.exchange/

Do you or does anyone you know use the Liquid Network?

cigarette

There are a couple other swap services that offer (L-BTC  LN BTC) as well (***SideShift.ai*** and Flyp.me),

>  genuinely curious if anyone has gotten any value out of it or ever found a use case for it.

Wait until fees on the bitcoin blockchain become higher again -- interest in Liquid network will jump.

Here's a post with a number of ways Liquid network can be used:

*What is the Liquid Network?*
https://help.blockstream.com/hc/en-us/articles/900002016823-What-is-the-Liquid-Network-

I can hold the keys to my L-BTC (e.g., using Blockstream Green wallet), and can transfer that more quickly than I can with bitcoin (blocks on Liquid network occur every minute, and a transaction is deemed confirmed / final with just two block confirmations).

So if I want to pay an LN invoice but I don't have a node and I don't already have funds on an LN wallet -- but I have L-BTC, I can do something like deposit via Liquid network to [CoinOS Classic](https://Classic.CoinOS.io) and two or three minutes later I can then use those funds to pay an LN invoice.  (I haven't done this since CoinOS created the new front-end so maybe someone might confirm this still works now that it is CoinOS Classic).   

There are a couple other swap services that offer (L-BTC <--> LN BTC) as well (SideShift.ai and Flyp.me), but neither of those can be used from the U.S., and have a higher fee).

*KYC-Free-Instant-Exchanges*
https://cointastical.github.io/KYC-Free-Instant-Exchanges

cointastical

Robosats is now available as an app on Umbrel

![Self-hosted Robosats](https://i.postimg.cc/VLkNrK8N/photo-2022-08-31-00-12-55.jpg)

Source: https://t.me/robosats/10110

P2P_bitcoin

What's the most time-saving AI feature/app you use that nobody talks about?

tech

benwehrman

What are the AI tools you are actively using?

Beyond the hype, the shitty AI wrapper companies, what are the AI tools that you are actively using on a day-to-day basis?

I'll start.

I use ChatGPT4.0 to

- Help me write scientific grant proposals. I basically write the paragraphs in my own words, and prompt ChatGPT to rewrite them using better scientific language. It's great at this.
- Drastically improve the quality of my scientific papers. Same as above, I first write it in my own words and then let it improve the text. It's also pretty good at this, but the hyperbolic language that is ok for grant proposals sometimes needs to be tone-downed for a more factual paper.
- I also use it for improving the quality of other non-native colleague's paper drafts, but when their English is too crappy, it cannot do a better job than me at making sense of what the colleague was trying to convey.
- Debug Python code. Just copy paste the error message I get in my Jupyter notebooks, ChatGPT is faster than my past workflow of using Stack Overflow. I tried using it to write scientific code for me, but due to I presume the lack of training data for the highly specific type of code I do, it was not that good.
- When I played around with app development, ChatGPT has been great at helping me get started, choose the right tools, debug code, etc. I was almost relying on it too much in the sense that I did not always understand everything it wrote, yet worked. But as I progressed, the app structure was getting complicated and I had to spend a lot of time to remind ChatGPT what was already there whenever I was closing an ongoing session. I plan on restarting this process, but where I learn the fundamentals first and just use ChatGPT as a companion rather than my master.

I used to have a plugin in youtube that gives me summaries of long videos that I was about to watch. Helped me check if it's worth the time. The tool broke, didn't bother troubleshooting it. Don't remember the name.

Are there any ChatGPT wrappers that you use and believe will still be there in the future, i.e. OpenAI won't kill them by implementing the same functionality? Remember the PDF wrappers that died overnight.

Please avoid dropping lists of "10 AI tools everyone should know about" that are just there for Twitter engagement farming. I want to know about the tools YOU actively use on a day-to-day basis :)

south_korea_ln

What are the coolest new apps you've been using?

With all the new development going on in 2023, what apps have you enjoyed using? 

This could be a great resource bank for people (me) looking to explore the bitcoin ecosystem more!

birdeye21

Opening AI - GPUtopia

phygit

I found DarthCoin's side project he's been working on

Satslink by Coinkite

031ef7d322

SideSwap: A Wallet, Bridge and Decentralized Exchange for Liquid Network Assets

# SideSwap: A Wallet, Bridge and Decentralized Exchange for Liquid Network Assets

[SideSwap](https://sideswap.io/) @sideswap_io is a Bitcoin wallet, bridge and decentralized exchange on the [Liquid Network](https://liquid.net/) sidechain @liquid.

What can you do with SideSwap and how does it work?

## SideSwap Basics 

SideSwap is trying to bring capital markets to Bitcoin. 

It allows you to: 

✅  Peg in and out to/from the Liquid Network

✅  Hold Liquid assets

✅  Swap between Liquid assets and Liquid BTC

You can learn more about Liquid [here](https://twitter.com/teemupleb/status/1761068870083981436 
).

SideSwap was launched in 2021.

The app is open-source and available for desktop, iOS and Android. 

## Trading, Pegging In/Out, Fees

![IMG_5418.jpg](https://m.stacker.news/25928)

Besides being a Liquid wallet and a bridge, SideSwap also functions as a non-custodial p2p DEX for Liquid assets.

The asset swaps are atomic (trading fees 0.1%, swap spread 0.6%).

You can use the "Instant Swap" feature or use an order book to buy and sell.

![IMG_5440.jpg](https://m.stacker.news/25929)

When pegging in to Liquid, SideSwap will generate an on-chain address for you, and once you've sent the funds, they will be converted to your Liquid BTC balance on your SideSwap wallet. 

![IMG_5441.jpg](https://m.stacker.news/25930)

The peg-in takes up to 102 confirmations on the main chain with larger amounts, and generally 2 confirmations (often between 10-20 minutes) with amounts smaller than 0.1 BTC. 

Fees for pegging in and out are 0.1%. 

## No KYC (Unless Trading Securities)

Using SideSwap doesn't require KYC, unless you're trading security tokens.

Trading between e.g. Liquid BTC and Liquid USDT is permissionless. 

Since Liquid transactions are confidential, asset types and amounts are hidden from 3rd parties (no front-running or MEV). 

Even when trading "transfer restricted assets" (securities), SideSwap is not responsible for verifying users' identities: this is done by the asset issuer itself by a whitelisting process. 

Trading securities on SideSwap and Liquid could make the whole process more interoperable.

In TradFi, if you want to switch between brokers, you have to sell your assets first to fiat and then buy again on a new broker platform.

## Self-Custodial With Jade Hardware Wallet Support

SideSwap prompts you to back up your wallet and save your seed phrase upon creating a wallet.

Storing your seed phrase is extremely important!

Otherwise you might lose your funds!

SideSwap supports the Jade hardware wallet by Blockstream @blockstream_official , but only with the desktop version and not in the QR code mode.

Jade can be imported as "watch-only", so you don't need to connect it to view balances or receive Liquid assets. 

The Jade device is only required when signing transactions. 

Learn more about Jade [here](https://twitter.com/teemupleb/status/1715425650008592583).

SideSwap supports exporting all your transactions to a CSV file, for e.g. accounting purposes.

The app also enables an option to connect your own personal Electrum server.  

## Censorship-Resistance and User Experience

The web version of SideSwap is a downloadable program that you run on your computer (it's not an app you run on a web front-end).

This design choice can potentially add censorship-resistance in case permissionless DeFi front-ends get banned or restricted.

Although Liquid blocks take 1 minute to confirm and 2 minutes to settle, when testing the swapping feature on SideSwap the swapped assets were credited almost instantly.

Liquid transaction fees were very small too (around $0.15).

L-BTC is used to pay tx fees on Liquid, but unlike on many smart contract blockchains, I don't have to reserve an amount of L-BTC on my balance to pay for "gas fees".

If I want to swap all my L-BTC to e.g. L-USDT, the tx fees are automatically deducted from the amount.  

It's good to note that SideSwap only supports the Liquid Network and can't be used with on-chain bitcoin or with the Lighting Network.

## More resources: 

[Video tutorial by BTC Sessions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbo-eq6KwdY)

[SideSwap's founder Scott Millar on Blockstream's podcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxhSYF17d84)

## Project links:

[Website](https://sideswap.io/)
[X (Twitter)](https://twitter.com/side_swap)
[Telegram](https://t.me/SideSwap_io)
[GitHub](https://github.com/sideswap-io/sideswapclient)











teemupleb

openpilot is an open source advanced driver assistance system, anyone tried ?

Automated Lane Centering
Adaptive Cruise Control
Lane Change Assist
Driver Monitoring (no wheel nags)
can drive for hours without intervention
open source and developed on GitHub

https://comma.ai/openpilot

Some friend told me it works good, experience can be smoother than Tesla. I don't have the car to try it tho.
I'm curious at it.