The Merchant Playbook
Free, plain-language guides for P2P crypto merchants. No fluff, no jargon for its own sake, just how the business actually works and how to protect yourself while running it.
How P2P spreads work (and where your profit actually comes from)
The spread between buy and sell rates is the entire P2P business. Here is how it forms, why it moves, and how to read it like a merchant.
How to price your P2P ads without racing to the bottom
Undercutting by the smallest tick is not a strategy. A practical framework for pricing Bybit P2P ads around your cost basis, your float, and your settlement speed.
Spotting and avoiding P2P scams: a merchant field guide
The common scams that target P2P merchants (fake payment proof, chargebacks, third-party payments, triangulation) and the habits that stop them.
Buyer red flags: when to cancel a P2P order
The behavioral warning signs that an order is heading somewhere bad, and why cancelling early is a professional move, not a lost sale.
How P2P settlement actually works, from escrow to released funds
What happens between "order opened" and "crypto released" on Bybit P2P: escrow, payment windows, disputes, and where the risk sits at each step.
Keeping records that protect your bank account
Bank compliance teams freeze first and ask questions later. The records a P2P merchant needs, and how to produce them in minutes instead of weeks.
Understanding your real profit after fees
Turnover is not profit. How to compute true P2P profit per trade with cost basis and fees, and the mistakes that make merchants overestimate their earnings.
How to prove your P2P trading income to a bank
Banks and tax offices accept records, not explanations. Exactly what evidence a P2P merchant needs to prove income is legitimate, and how to produce it in minutes.
Bank account frozen? A P2P merchant’s step-by-step response
A calm, practical playbook for the day a bank restricts your account over crypto activity: what to do first, what to send, what never to do, and how to get unfrozen faster.
Bybit and Bitget P2P history limits: back it up before it disappears
Bybit keeps about 180 days of P2P order history, Bitget about 90. What that means for your records, what to export, and why the day you connect sets how far back your proof reaches.
The proof file every P2P merchant should keep
A simple, durable record-keeping routine for P2P crypto merchants: what to store, how to organize it, and how to be ready before anyone asks.
What is P2P trading, and can you really profit from it?
A plain-English start for total beginners: what P2P is, how merchants make money from the spread, what you need to begin, and what is realistic.
Your first P2P trade, step by step
Exactly what happens in a single P2P trade from start to finish, so your first one is calm instead of confusing.
OKX is coming back to Nigeria, and traders are saying "we have moved on"
OKX pulled its services from Nigerian users, and P2P merchants rebuilt elsewhere. Now that OKX is returning, here is why so many say "we have moved on", and the real lesson about not tying your business to one exchange.