The Vision: Reach for the moon? We reach for the stars! We are building the first fully non-custodial, peer to peer Bitcoin DEX. — A “fully non-custodial, peer to peer Bitcoin DEX” — What does that mean? Non-custodial: No platform, no middle man — just you and your keys. Peer to peer: Trading partners are connected directly, no centralized instance. Secured…

With its latest update to v1.8.0 RaspiBlitz, the most popular DIY distro for self-sovereign Bitcoiners, has integrated ItchySats. ItchySats is a peer to peer Bitcoin derivative exchange. It allows you to trade BTC/USD CFDs with zero counterparty risk. Trades are fully collateralized on the Bitcoin blockchain and secured using DLCs. …

ItchySats 0.4.12 ships with Umbrel 0.4.18. Binary users can already upgrade to the latest release or docker container. Umbrel user will have to wait for Umbrel 0.4.18 to be released. What’s new? ItchySats 0.4.12 is all about improving stability. It also includes a few small user interface updates. Noteworthy updates from the…

🎉 Promo! 🎉 Because we are so excited about pitching at Bitcoin2022’s Pitch Day in Miami, we decided to waive all funding fees (i.e. the funding rate will be zero) in the ItchySats app for two weeks, between April 5th and April 19th! You find us in the Umbrel app-store! Just ready for…

ItchySats 0.4.2 was released with Umbrel 0.4.14 and includes several bugfixes — 🐞🩹 If you are not on Umbrel you find the latest release here and the docker container here. It is highly recommended to upgrade to 0.4.2 to have the following fixes: The price no longer gets permanently outdated…

New Umbrel release is out! Update now — and rollover with the new ItchySats version including perpetual CFDs! What’s new? Perpetual CFDs — roll’em over The big feature of 0.4.0 is perpetual CFDs. The previous version 0.3.6 was limited to positions being open for 7 days. Now positions are open forever. That simple? It is, but here…

After our testnet alpha we reached another milestone that is: Mainnet Beta! Time to open a long position on ItchySats! While we are preparing to release on Umbrel you can already use ItchySats to open mainnet positions. In this blogpost we show you how. Once we are integrated in Umbrel…

This blogpost points to the beta release 0.3.1 of ItchySats - non-custodial CFD trading secured by DLCs on the Bitcoin blockchain. The blogpost describes the testnet setup — give it a try! 🚧 Try it on testnet — no mainnet coins to be lost — feedback is welcome. Note that…