negrunch

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negrunch
negrunch@mostro.network
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Software engineer, FOSS, #Bitcoin supporter & troublemaker. 🤖🧌 Mostro builder. ⬛⬛⬛🟥⬛ Cypherpunks write code.
If anything is clear about the international community, it is that opposing Trump is far more important to them than the suffering of Venezuelan or any other "global south" society
It's been 3 years since I wrote the first draft of what would become @Mostro, today we are a team of people working full time and our mission is clear: we’re building a platform designed from the ground up for the developing world, especially for people living under authoritarian regimes. Privacy isn’t just a luxury; it’s a matter of safety. That’s why we don’t rely on Tor, since it doesn’t work well in areas with very slow internet—something common in these regions. Instead, Mostro use Nostr and must only publish events to relays we trust, so the Mostro daemon never exposes its IP to a relay that might be a trap set by a dictator. This keeps everything simple and more private. In other words, if someone is in an authoritarian country, they can publish to their own relay, and clients will fetch that information without revealing the Mostro node’s IP to potentially hostile relays.
Almost a year ago, I proposed a Nostr NIP to create a large liquidity pool for Bitcoin P2P orders on Nostr. The idea is to have a standard (or an attempt at one) that, as more platforms implement it, allows end users to have a single place to search for the order that best suits them and, from there, navigate to the platform where the chosen order is located. So far, this standard has been implemented by @npub1lnp2...yurp , @Mostro and @Robosats A couple of months ago, @KoalaSat created this very useful P2P dashboard where we can see all the orders that meet this standard. I believe the more P2P orders published here, the greater the benefit for users and the platforms themselves, as end users are directed to the option that best fits their needs. For curious minds here the NIP