Bisq 2 mobile

The mobile version of Bisq 2 allows you to access the Bisq Easy protocol from a smartphone, and it comes in two versions:

• Bisq Easy full node
• Bisq 2 remote

Bisq Easy full node

This is the full experience of Bisq Easy on mobile: the application acts as an autonomous node on the Bisq 2 p2p network, getting its own onion address and hosting all the features of the Bisq Easy trading protocol in your pocket. It is tailored mostly for buyers, who:

• are completely new to Bitcoin and want to get their first satoshis, so they can use them to cover for the security deposit on Bisq 1, in order to access a more advanced trading protocol, with larger liquidity and better prices
• do not own a desktop computer, or share it with other people, and prefer not to expose their trading

Cons:

• it will use more of your battery, because it has to manage the full p2p stack to be online
• you phone might kill the process after a while to free up resources, so you will need to start it again

Bisq 2 remote

It works in a similar way to what a remote desktop does, since you need a running Bisq 2 instance on your desktop computer at home, or a headless instance on a VPS, or even some trusted third party who runs Bisq 2 and allows you to piggyback on his desktop connection. It is the preferred option for sellers, or frequent buyers:

• lightweight if compared to the Bisq Easy full node version
• all the profile information and offer book activity is managed in a single place (your desktop computer) so access to trades can be transparently available on two different devices
• even if your phone kills its process, the current state will be preserved on the desktop application
• this will be the version where access to new protocols could be added in the future, for example the MuSig upgrade of the existing Bisq1 multisig protocol

Cons:

• you need a desktop instance running somewhere (this is the only downside, really)