Two more sites you can use without having to trust exchanges with your funds

in trading •  7 years ago  (edited)

A few days ago I made a post about services that you can use for trading between coins without needing to trust exchanges with them or holding them there for too long. You can read about it here.

I was made aware of 2 other sites that I wanted to bring up in this post.


Changelly is another service that offers a lot of tokens to trade in between. It is also one of the few ones that accept credit cards and only take a low fee of 0.5% per trade!

I didn't have the best experience with it when it first was released but looking through reviews lately it seems they have they have improved a lot in the long run!

Here is a list of all the currencies they offer to trade with the prices as of writing this. To stay safe always try it out with a lower amount first if you are going to dive into bigger trades!

I hope to see more of these services popping up in the future to not have most users trust exchanges with their funds!


Living Room of Satoshi is another great service that has been up and reliable for some time.

This one is a bit different as it allows you to do other things such as pay Bills directly with crypto's through their site for Australian residents! It also accepts a fair amount of cryptocurrencies such as Steem!

While doing this you can also be rewarded a point for every $1 spent which you then can trade in for some presents on their site!

They also offer some cool stats showing what bills customers have used their crypto for on their page, check it out!

As always, test them out with a lower amount first before you do any bigger deals! Stay safe out there, Steemians!


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That is pretty amazing I feel like they are going to come out with more and more new services as crypto expands

Just wait until a major ecommerce retailer starts accepting cryptos. If Amazon or eBay did this then you'd see an explosion of other retailers follow suit. They would probably have a conversion application to support payouts to vendors as well. Exciting times.

It's just a matter of time

overstock.com accepts bitcoin

I wonder how many people are actually using it though

It doesn’t support IOTA

It might be because IOTA is on the 'Tanlge' and not blockchain?

the amount of fees will play an important​ part

whats amazing about that ?>???

More alternatives to all this overrated exchanges is sure a welcomed development.

I use changelly. Too bad they removed golos and gbg though.

i have been using changelly and everything went smooth

I'll vouch for @changelly Used them a couple of times and I've always been happy with the service. Any delays I've had were because BTC takes so long to confirm.

Haha the turn your points into presents concept is pretty cool!

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I have already used changelly, and yeah they offers very low fees compared to others. But the duration of transaction is a bit long in my experience. The other one is new for me. Thanks for sharing more options.

That's probably due to BTC and ETH having an overwhelmed network right now: http://blocktivity.info/

I thought that it was slow for the mining fee...or am i wrong?

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Bitcoin and Ethererum have been having problems dealing with the volume on their networks lately. These networks the exchanges have were designed to do like 40k transactions in a day and now all the sudden its at 200k+ so its taking longer as exchanges especially figure out how to process you. Coinbase is awful with this I had one transaction take 12 hours for bitcoin.

thank you for your explanation!

What!? 12 hours is the longest I've heard of

Look up 0 confirmations in 8 hours....its a reddit post 12 hours was a pretty common delay

Ok, thanks

Awesome! I knew about Changelly but I had no idea about the Living Room of Satoshi... Changelly is rather painless to use, at least in my experience.

More alternatives to Poloniex, good!

I've used changelly several times, as a matter of fact, about 1 hour ago. I did have one issue a few weeks ago that they eventually resolved and I was messaged directly by the CEO. I've recommended them to all my crypto friends

Awesome, sounds like a good company

I want that whisky rocks. !

Both sites seem great, cool features..... It's nice to have alternatives to the conventional exchanges around..... Reading through the comments I see positive reviews about the companies, that is a good sign too

That's pretty cool with the Living Room of Satoshi!

I think Living Room of Satoshi is only for australian users or im wrong?
Thanks for sharing, i was looking for this

by using this site we can trade without converting our steem in Bitcoin. we can buy things with steem. is this service is only for Austarlia or it is world wide please tell me. thanks for sharing such a nice information !!!

You can pay any bill that has the BPAY logo and Biller Code. More than 19,000 businesses accept payments using BPAY. You can also pay to any Australian bank account, even your own!

I think it isn't for Australia, It is for all world.

wow amazing now we can buy online things and trade with bitcoin it is really amazing thanks for sharing @acidyo

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Changelly works the best for me it's fast and has low fees compared to others. Thumbs up!

Many have site can windraw SBD..
I know it turns out there site easier and faster to windraw.
@acidyo

I read your post @acidyo

Great job . I follow your post and hold between coin
I hold more coin

cryptocurrencies will take over the market soon. My suggestion is for all peoples, invest in cryptocurrency to make a good future for yourself.
if you don't which is the best crypto to invest here is some suggestion.
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Thats a reliable option for your coins and tokens, but they are still online and you still have to trust a third person. The best thing you can do is put it in a hardware wallet so NOBODY but you can get to your coins and tokens.

Thanks you so much for this great info, i have use changelly in the past on minergate cloud mining and it was great.

Great,I appreciate

Thats awesome, the crypto is advancing day by day and I am looking forward to what has to come!

I have been trying to find crypto with low or even 0% exchange fees. Thank you for this.

Hi, pls followback n like my post... Thanks

Changelly is a very good site ...you can trust them with your funds...

Pretty cool alternatives for newcomers!

Oh my God, i didn't know changelly. It is an amazing service! Thank you!

Wow thats amazing. It is very useful to pay services using BTC or Steem in the future. It will change the future and make life more easier for everybody.

I've heard about changelly before but haven't really tried it, I'll do that now

a worldwide site like Living Room of Satoshi would be the greatest thing in the world ! :D

Yes! Let's make it

Can't wait to pay my bills with crypto here in the united shmates!

I used Changelly and the experience was awesome!

@acidyo,you are best👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Have been using changelly for a while now, and though have tried bittrex and poloniex, i would revert back to changelly, i think changelly is more convenient.

Nice, thanks for the review

thanks for the great advice, great choice of currencies for exchange, a good post, I think with me many will agree, good luck

These exchangers can not be compared to our non-interest-bearing exchange. Steem forward! Good luck to you and good.

Thank you for the new info. So I can fully count on these two sites in case i wanted to exchange my funds, it was truly informative :)

New dimensions of business are being opened

Cool , thx for sharing :) i was inspecting changelly before , but when i compared it to blocktrades , exchange rate was not so profitable, although there is a bigger choice of altcoins. Regarding Living room of satoshi , it looks very cool , but it works only with australian dollars , which is very sad ((

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Useful information, did not know these sites .. is a great alternative. Thank you for sharing @acidyo!

I tried changely today but kept getting zero as the rate from USD to any other currency. Other start convrrsions give rate, but not from USD. Am i the only one with that bug??

Coinbase charges like 4% when you use a credit card. @acidyo are you saying that Changelly only charges 0.5% to buy with credit or did I misunderstand that? Maybe you're saying 1) you can buy crypto with a CC and 2) when trading the fees are only 0.5%. 0.5% for buying with a CC seems to good to be true. If you can clarify that would be appreciated.

What you think about Blocktrades? Is their fee high ?

Yeah, @changelly has been my go-to for cashing out this sweet sweet SBD
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@shayne

These are both pretty cool and nifty sites, man! That second one would be really useful if I were an aussie, would be rad to see them include the US and EU with the ability to pay bills directly in the future. Also, I think that's kinda cool that you get rewarded with points for every dollar spent, looks like what gamestop does with purchases except the rewards are actually cool and useful items instead of junk, lol.

Nice, this is the second time I heard about Changelly on Steemit too, must be catching on.

Thank you so much for the info! This is my second day on steemit and I love it! I am addicted. I am telling everyone I know about steemit. I really appreciate people like you trying to help newbies like me. I am upvoting and following :)

Hi @acidyo, I daily use changelly and i'm very satisfied. I think they have one of the best android app.

After using changelly for some transactions without a problem, I ran into one yesterday. I exchanged some Ether to Steem and everything was fine, but at the exchange step it froze and broke up with an error. I received no Steem and it´s now over 30 hours and I´m still waiting for the Ether refund. Mailed to support several times - still nothing. Not sure, if I will ever get my Ether back :(

That sucks. Any updates?

No - I mailed them every day but no response at all (other than the automatic "we received your mail and will response within 24 hours bla bla) - what makes it worse is, that I really would have needed it urgently and I´m losing money every day - I will keep you updated, if I really should get my refund, but this was my last time I used Changelly for sure!

This 2 site is trusted. thanks for sharing new information @acidyo

Wow, more option. I didn't know about changelly and it looks more cheaper . I will try it out, thanks @acidyo for this wonderful information.

Thanks for telling us about these two, @acidyo! I had never heard of either of them, but I'll keep them in mind if I ever need to buy some more Steem ;)

Changelly is quite good and easy to use, low fee also is the best thing here. Three days ago I exchanged 800 steem to btc using it because bittrex is not generating my deposit address there, have you any idea about it?

I knew about changely and I've seen mentions about the living room of satoshi but never checked it out. Thanks for a nice intro to it!

I paid my $300 gas bill with LROS.
Smooth and quick :)

This was very helpful and coming from you I trust what you say.

I have seen lots of good remarks made about #changelly since the time you made the first post.
I hope the continue to live up to their reputation?

Many important transactions shared with us to share with us your important thank you post for us

i'm living in india ...can i buy steem on chengelly with my debit card(visa)?

I use changelly and shapeshift and find both work great at what they do and made it easy to exchange coins for this noob.
https://shapeshift.io/#/coins

Thanks, it's always good to have more alternatives

Thanks for this information. I really get scared and uncomfortable leaving my coins in exchanges. And one always has to buy back to BTC before getting another thereby incurring more charges.
By circumventing this, these are great options.

thanks for the info,it will be a great help for us.. Thumbs up for you.

I upped this post for 5 cents Acidyo. That's all I got, but you can have it all.

Wow, that's pretty interesting. I'm going to try it out!

Changelly seem like something I am looking for.. Thank you for sharing.. I will see how it works for SGD compared to coinbase ..thanks again.

Thanks for the update on this. 🤘

Very informative post! Will check out the sites you mentioned here. Thanks.

Very good my post.

Upvote and resteem.

Thank you for the info......

I am trying Changelly today. thank you @acidyo

The Living Room of Satoshi sounds incredible...if only there were a US version of this site!

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Nice I didn't know them thanks. What you think about Waves DEX they implementing new technology, which will enable the network to process thousands of transactions per minute – making it the fastest decentralised Blockchain platform in the world according to them . This innovation will bring Blockchain technology to the next level of evolution, enabling it to compete with mainstream payment processors and to achieve mass-market adoption.“Waves-NG”, a next-generation technology designed to increase effective bandwidth and speed of block creation, is especially significant for businesses using Waves platform, since it allows conducting microtransactions without any delays which are typical for traditional Blockchain systems. It also allows the platform to withstand high loads, such as distribution of tokens following crowdsales and airdrops of bonus tokens. The speed of processing trading transactions on Waves decentralised exchange (DEX) is increased as well. There coin is doing well too at the moment 13 bucks.
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Cool...

You are right.

The fact that no crypto exchanges or services are 100% safe has been making me kind of worried. Since transactions are final, there is always a chance you would be ripped off. The way exchanges have been deciding to keep people's money hostage just as they please is quite unhealthy. If this was considered a financial service, I'm pretty sure that would be a crime. It might still be something one could sue over in some jurisdictions.

I wonder if there is any fiat exchange service. Like say we earn in SBD and can transfer it to bank. Because current scenario forces us to transfer into other currencies. Any ideas ? :)

The good new is to see how the market is growing fast.A good point for consumers.

I never thought this was possible until I read this post nice one and I greatful

I wish the US didn't have so many dumb ass laws preventing stuff like Livingroom of Satoshi from operating here.. : {

I commend your grear job. Keep on keeping on.

Thanks for such a nice post.

Living Room of Satoshi sounds like a mad scientist's layer :))) it's nice to know there are a few more safer options out there than the traditional exchanges.

Interesting sites ! Thanks for the information my friend !!

It does not support IOTA and Cardano
Also exchange rate is not Fare !!!

Thanks for sharing @acidyo! I had no idea about Satoshi’s Living Room!

hmm Changelly interface is nice

but not sure if its functionality is better than shapeshift

Thank you for this new information. 🐓🐓

Good read! I mean with BTC prices skyrocketing I think it makes more sense to try cloud mining because of higher returns. https://hashflare.io/r/7487B9DC 10% OFF voucher: HF17PROF5

Which exchange is the lowest transaction fee?

I would love that this idea expands to other countries!

I've been using changelly and powering up. I am used them several times in recent weeks and they've been great

i am using Changelly a lot of time. I am very satisfied with the, But right now, they have some problem with the website. Maybe server is overload, because many people try to exchange they coins? I am not able to change any coin right now. since 3 days already. Are you able @acidyo?

Thanks for the info. Will definitely share this post with friends.

What is the difference between changelly and shapeshift? Shapeshift not as safe? Thanks.

Wow!! i believe that this changelly is like bitcon right? And what does it entail?