Help. I don’t understand what’s going on; this is beyond me. I tried to buy BTC from the offers shown, and I confirmed all the steps, but at the end, the transaction crashed and now it’s like this:
I don’t know if I lost transaction fees or not, because I don’t know where or how to check. The UI is very unclear to me. Furthermore, the transaction in the message above on the mempool is from two months ago. WTF?
the first issue is a trade protocol timeout, you didn’t lose any funds since taker fee wasn’t published, also not being able to take the offer again is by design, the first attempt failed (probably the maker has connection issues) so other attempts will fail
the tx from 2 months ago is the maker fee. it means that the maker published the offer back then, and hasn’t been able to have takers participate, so that’s probably why he ended up setting a low premium, I think he has has connection issues since then and should probably refresh his tor files, but there is no easy way to connect to him to relay the message
the last error popup is not related, and usually inconsequential, meaning that normally bisq can operate normally after an heap space error, but in order to remove the risk of that happening, edit /opt/bisq/lib/app/Bisq.cfg MaxRAM=8g and java-options=-Xmx8g (if you are on linux, as I guess you might be)
the issues you reported do happen from time to time, and they are related to:
p2p network mechanics
the desktop application being java based and running with lower-end default heap space limits
as you see there are logical explanations for your report, and you are making general assumptions based on your singular experience, but that doesn’t follow because trading on bisq as a whole is very much operational
I base my opinions on experience. I’ve been using Bisq for over two years and have completed numerous transactions during that time, all successfully, the last one during the discovery of an exploit. Since the last hack, which forced locks and limits, and the release of at least two patched versions of Bisq, I’ve noticed persistent problems I didn’t have before or only experienced sporadically. Now I’m constantly having problems with DAO synchronization (it told me to reset twice today!), the Java stack, and others.
Of course, I appreciate the app’s authors and am grateful for their work, but I see that stability has decreased, and I’m writing about it.
As for my “partner” in the transaction, I can send him a PM, as this transaction is constantly stuck with errors. What should I write to him? Please provide the message for him, as I don’t want to invent and write nonsense myself.
