HELSINKI, Finland, April 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LocalBitcoins.com, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform, has ceased its operations. Users who have previously maintained accounts on the ...

Finland-based peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency platform LocalBitcoins will be closing down its base of operations after being active for reportedly over 10 years, as stated by Cointelegraph.

LocalBitcoins, one of the oldest and best-known Bitcoin exchanges, is closing after a decade of service, with the peer-to-peer platform citing the “ongoing very cold crypto-winter” as the reason for ...

Bitcoin exchange LocalBitcoins has announced that deposit fees and transaction fees between wallets in the platform are now free. Launched in 2012, the platform doesn’t touch fiat currency itself; ...

LocalBitcoins is a marketplace where members can buy or sell Bitcoins directly with each other. Members post their exchange rates and forms of payment to buy or sell bitcoins on their platform. In ...

LocalBitcoins, one of the oldest and most widely-used Bitcoin (BTC) services, reveals that most of its customers are based in developing countries. These are places (such as Argentina and Venezuela) ...

LocalBitcoins has partnered with crypto tracing firm Elliptic. Elliptic will monitor transactions for illicit activity on the peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange. LocalBitcoins has made efforts to boost KYC ...

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Bitcoin exchange LocalBitcoins, often used as a gauge of bitcoin interest and prices around the world, has suddenly begun suspending long-time users' accounts without warning. Reports began coming in ...

Interest in Bitcoin, the censorship resistant cryptocurrency, often spikes during times of political or economic unrest. It’s no accident that Satoshi Nakamoto embedded a reference to the financial ...