# Trading in Ethereum base and Fiat

**URL:** <https://bisq.community/t/trading-in-ethereum-base-and-fiat/4303>\
**Category:** Payment methods\
**Created:** [January 7, 2018, 5:35am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/trading-in-ethereum-base-and-fiat/4303 "2018-01-07T05:35:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![kryptonizer](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/kryptonizer/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@kryptonizer](https://bisq.community/u/kryptonizer)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 5:35am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/trading-in-ethereum-base-and-fiat/4303/1 "2018-01-07T05:35:52Z")

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Bitcoin’s fees and txn time are insanely high that I’m no longer interested in trading in bitcoin.

As Ethereum is becoming a popular cryptocurrency along with the great development for speed and low fees, why is there not an option for Bisq to let users trade in Ether/Fiat pairs via Zellie and bank transfer? It will clear the transactions much faster and less fees.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![alexej996](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/alexej996/32/491_2.png) [@alexej996](https://bisq.community/u/alexej996)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 10:23am UTC](https://bisq.community/t/trading-in-ethereum-base-and-fiat/4303/2 "2018-01-07T10:23:24Z")

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Bisq already supports some base currencies other then BTC, mainly Litecoin and Dash.  
I am not sure why Ethereum wasn’t added, but I assume it is because it causes more of development effort and devs decided to focus on other features at the moment.

Also, Ethereum had a lot of problems in the past with security of multisignature transactions, so that might also be a reason why it wasn’t given the priority in development.

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**Author:** ![kryptonizer](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/kryptonizer/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@kryptonizer](https://bisq.community/u/kryptonizer)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/trading-in-ethereum-base-and-fiat/4303/3 "2018-01-07T17:00:40Z")

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Yes, I noticed of Dash and Litecoin a few months back and wanted to use it. But the problem is that those coins are not as popular as Bitcoin and Ether, so not many buyers & sellers there.

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**Author:** ![alexej996](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/alexej996/32/491_2.png) [@alexej996](https://bisq.community/u/alexej996)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/trading-in-ethereum-base-and-fiat/4303/4 "2018-01-07T19:44:56Z")

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There is probably bigger volume on these base currencies now when fees are high.

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**Author:** ![ManfredKarrer](https://bisq.community/user_avatar/bisq.community/manfredkarrer/32/26_2.png) [@ManfredKarrer](https://bisq.community/u/ManfredKarrer)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/trading-in-ethereum-base-and-fiat/4303/5 "2018-01-07T23:21:28Z")

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We added those coins which are similar to Bitcoin and have BitcoinJ implementations. Others like Ethereum would require a lot of engineering effort. But if anyone works on that we are happy to add it.

Namecoin will be added as soon they have P2SH support.