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 Status
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-Bitsquare has releases the beta version on the 27th of April 2016 after 3 months testing on mainnet.
+Bitsquare has released the beta version on the 27th of April 2016 after 3 months testing on mainnet.
 For the latest version checkout our [releases page](https://github.com/bitsquare/bitsquare/releases) at Github.
 
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