# Cancelled Completed order **URL:** \ **Category:** Counterwallet\ **Created:** [September 19, 2017, 10:53am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/cancelled-completed-order/3800 "2017-09-19T10:53:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![jdogresorg](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/forums.counterparty.io/jdogresorg/32/1349_2.png) [@jdogresorg](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/jdogresorg)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/cancelled-completed-order/3800/3 "2017-09-20T16:35:41Z")
> [@What BTC sellers on the Counterparty Distributed Exchange need to know?](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/what-btc-sellers-on-the-counterparty-distributed-exchange-need-to-know/1183): > > Notice Starting November 5, 2014, the BTC Sell functionality has been removed from Counterwallet, but retained on the protocol level. This information still applies, but the interface is accessible only via the CLI and API. Introduction Trading on the Counterparty Distributed Exchange (DEx) currently treats bitcoin sell order differently. The core reason is that it is impossible to escrow BTC without a trusted mididle man. Because Counterparty’s mission is to allow secure P2P trading withou… Basically… using BTC on the DEX is a pain and requires the buyer to perform an additional BTCpay action once a BTC order is matched. It looks like what happened is 1.) You listed some XCP for sale for BTC 2.) Your order matched with someone else who was looking to buy XCP with BTC 3.) The XCP buyer needed to make an additional BTCPay transaction to actually pay for the order 4.) The XCP buyer failed to make a BTCpay transaction 5.) You clicked the cancel button to cancel your order Going forward, I would avoid using BTC on the DEX as most likely your going to continue to have issues like these with matched orders expiring, etc. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/cancelled-completed-order/3800)._