The @Mostro app obtains the Bitcoin price of fiat currencies from the Yadio API. Yadio, like many other websites, is blocked in Venezuela by the dictatorship, which is why users in Venezuela cannot create market price orders on Mostro right now. Since I started working on tools that use Bitcoin, I've been avoiding relying on web domains precisely because of how easy it is to block them. Using Telegram is a good option, but it has the drawback of being centralized. That's why Mostro exists, solving this problem by using Nostr. Given the blocking of Yadio, the solution is more Nostr. That's why I've contacted the Yadio developers and proposed that they also publish the prices on Nostr to circumvent censorship in Venezuela. They are already working on it! 😃

This Statue of Liberty was also made by the French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the same artist who created the one in New York, and was installed in 1875, 11 years before the one in New York. If you come to Buenos Aires, it's very close to Chinatown, in Barrancas de Belgrano.

I've been working on a reputation analysis tool for @Mostro nodes. This application fetches public Nostr events and computes objective metrics to help users assess the reliability and operational health of Mostro nodes before trading. This is the first try but there's plenty room for improvement

Mostro Score

I've been working on FOSS for years and I've witnessed firsthand when my favorite projects cease to exist due to a lack of incentives for developers. This is our proposal to make Mostro be sustainable in time

Mostro blog

Primal is a nostr service, nostr goal is to fight censorship by removing the single point of failure, but primal is working exclusively as a SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE, I have days trying to use it from Argentina and it doesn't work, it's also impossible to connect directly to the relays I want because everything pases through a cache service which is the SPF This is not how nostr should be use it, if you want to add a SPF feature make it optional but not the only one, otherwise primal can be easily censored on authoritarian regimes

I just got tired of reading "President of Venezuela" in wikipedia and created a more accurate wikifreedia entry for maduro https://wikifreedia.xyz/nicolas-maduro/negrunch@mostro.network

Right now there are 749 p2p Orders that are implementing NIP-69 🤩

If anything is clear about the international community, it is that opposing Trump is far more important to them than the suffering of Venezuelan society.

If anything is clear about the international community, it is that opposing Trump is far more important to them than the suffering of Venezuelan 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.

Africa Bitcoin Conference starting now 🧡🇲🇺

Cómo saber cuándo el plátano está listo para tajadas? - Cuando está a punto de irse caminando 😅

🚨 p2p.band is down and probably is because is receiving flood of orders from @Hodl Hodl , I'm running it locally and currently we have over 10k NIP-69 pending nostr orders from hodlhodl, this is starting to be a problem to relays, which may start blocking orders from hodlhodl pubkey, please holdhodl team give it a look ASAP

GM people! Having salvadorean coffee in my new favorite cup ☕

GM ☕🇸🇻 You may think I'm exagerating but I think Salvadorian coffee is one of the best in the world, I'm enjoying a morning with good coffee in San Salvador and waiting the Time to go to #AdoptingBitcoin

Good morning San Salvador 🇸🇻

Luego de 4 años vuelvo a El Salvador 🇸🇻 En tan solo dos días estaré en Adopting Bitcoin! 😃 ⚡ #AdoptingBitcoin2025

Luego de 4 años vuelvo a El Salvador 🇸🇻 En tan solo dos días estaré en Adopting Bitcoin! 😃 ⚡ #AdoptingBitcoin2025

Hoy a las 11hs voy a hablar en #labitconf sobre el trabajo que hemos venido haciendo estos últimos años en @Mostro y en la tarde dos paneles súper interesantes, si estás en #labitconf nos vemos allá 😀