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by renonce 1472 days ago
Unfortunately there is no decentralized exchange for BTC. There is no smart contracts on BTC so you have to somehow bridge it to something like Ethereum before you can swap it. And to bridge it you have to rely on some centralized party, such as WBTC. (I know renBTC but it's unclear who their validators are so I'd just assume it's centralized)
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Blahah 1472 days ago
> Unfortunately there is no decentralized exchange for BTC

Localbitcoins, localmonero... Two of many.

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throwaaay103948 1472 days ago
Bisq is a P2P Decentralized exchange for Bitcoin: https://bisq.network
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TrapLord_Rhodo 1472 days ago
>There is no smart contracts on BTC

Not true, BTC does have smart contracts. They called it op-code and most people don't use it anymore, but me and my friends built a poker game and we play every Thursday.

The original wallet download also had a poker game, but they decided to take it out after a while to ensure btc wasn't labeled as "Gambling"

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