Hello everyone. I want to attempt to run BISQ on my StartOS server. And see if I can get everything in a useable setup. Has anyone done this? If so do you know of any guides or best practices? I tried youtube and looked in the doc but I don’t see anything. There is one video about how to point your instance of Bisq on your browser to your StartOS Node. But not much else. And nothing about the marketplace app. Any ideas or breadcrumbs would be great.
I am also a newcomer to Start9 and just started digging into BISQ today, so these are my (fresh)breadcrumbs.
As BISQ is available from the Community Registry on Marketplace, it is already a usable setup as is. I don’t think it is necessary to point it to your StartOS, like you would do, say pointing your Sparrow wallet to your Electrs node.
So far I found the BISQ Community forum: https://bisq.community/
The Telegram channel: Telegram: View @bisq_p2p
The BISQ wiki: https://bisq.wiki/Main_Page
Note the BISQ wiki isn’t reachable just now due to an expired certificate 
, but they know about it and help is on the way.
I find anything “crypto” related on YT gets drowned in clickbait titles and in-video ad’s, so I don’t use it to much.
Thanks Figure8. I appreciate the sources. I will start to follow it. Yes Bisq Wiki is not available. Then I tried to sign up for Bisq Community forum. But it doesn’t actually send the confirmation email to get an account. No account then not able to ask questions. Also tried Bisq Telegram did answer but they said it is the something that Start OS support should have. I will try support. Get back to you.
It looks like there is not a lot of good information from the Bisq folks themselves. They even recommended to use their app first to get used to Bisq. I will not be using this Marketplace app for now. Did you find anything?
Well, my approach was to play around with the app, clicking on this and that to see what popped up, and it looks like most functions comes with some info and/or warning pop-up, which I found helpful. There is a 30 day wait from your first trade til you get a signed account, and I just place a small initial trade to start that countdown. I used similar platform before so it’s not all new to me, but BISQ sure has a learning curve to get used to.
I’m probably not gonna spent a lot of time on it until I get signed, because there are so many other interesting topics to dive into after I installed the Start9 server, such as Mempool, Datum server, the Knots node, Sparrow wallet and mining and I’d rather spend my efforts on that for now.
Will probably be using BISQ exclusively for traden in the future.
I find the same thing. I am working with the regular desktop app and it seems to work well. It has some support and mediation. I will focus on other Start 9 applications for now. Next I want to test recovery of the Start OS server when there is a power outage.
BTW, Bisq on StartOS is just the desktop app in a simulated environment. You would probably be better off running it on a Desktop in many cases. The same is true of Wasabi and Sparrow. While Bisq probably has more reasons to run on a server, all three don’t need to be and are for specialist use cases.
Yes. This is where I ended up. It seems to work quite well on the desktop app. Thanks for the advice.
What do you mean by a simulated environment? My understanding is that running these 3rd party apps on the server provides more privacy, am I wrong?
Regarding the simulated environment, the the marketplace app runs a virtual desktop so that you can interact with the Bisq desktop app through your browser. A virtual desktop does make things run slower than having the desktop app locally, but it works. StartOS uses these virtual desktops for Bisq, Sparrow, and Wasabi.
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