LocalBitcoins.com is a person-to-person bitcoin trading site. - At LocalBitcoins.com, people from different countries can exchange their local currency to bitcoins. The site allows users to post advertisements where they state exchange rate and payment methods for buying or selling bitcoins. You reply to these advertisements and agree to meet the person to buy bitcoins with cash, or trade directly with online banking. Bitcoins are placed in LocalBitcoins.com web wallet from where you can pay your bitcoin purchases directly.
LocalBitcoins.com is de-centralized, embracing the nature of bitcoin.- On LocalBitcoins.com you are dealing with humans. Unlike centralized, stock-exchange-like, bitcoin trading sites, you make a trade directly with another person. This makes the process lean and fast, as there is no corporate overhead. You get your bitcoins instantly. Also, LocalBitcoins.com can support every payment method its user community supports. For every transaction, LocalBitcoins.com offers escrow or transaction service to protect the buyer of bitcoins.

Trade process duration from the creation of the user account to having bitcoins in your wallet is a few minutes.
LocalBitcoins.com payment method supports wide range of world payment methods.
Read more about the security features in the LocalBitcoins.com site security guide.

LocalBitcoins statement regarding the possible hard fork on Aug 1 2017 - We are closely monitoring the current situation regarding the risk of a Bitcoin hard fork occurring on August 1st. Today, July 18th, it looks possible that the hard fork will be avoided as BIP 91 can activate before then.Our current plan in case BIP91 does not activate before August 1st, and the risk of a hard fork becomes real, is to stop all Bitcoin transactions for a period of time in order to protect the Bitcoin you have in your LocalBitcoins wallet. Once the danger period has passed LocalBitcoins will allow withdrawals of Bitcoins on both the majority and minority chain for as long as it is feasible and possible to support both chains.In case BIP 91 fails to activate and the risk of a hard fork becomes real we will share more information via our blog, twitter and email.o get more detailed information about the situation please read the following articleTo stay up to date with the most current developments please follow the Bitcoin subreddit.Now the URLs and QR codes on our pages include recv=localbitcoins.com in them. This is to help wallet and service developers to know, that the address in question belongs to localbitcoins.com, and can be done as internal transaction to save on fees.As bitcoin blockchain space is becoming more crowded, we try to develop more ways to save on the Bitcoin network fees.

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LocalBitcoins Oy
Porkkalankatu 20
00180 Helsinki
Finland

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