@Mostro is a response to governments around the world that have chosen to wage war on citizens who want—or, more accurately, need—to escape the use of fiat currency.
There is a global trend, not only in authoritarian countries but also in the U.S. and Europe, to monitor all of citizens’ financial movements “for their own good.” Gradually, they have been squeezing companies that provided services enabling people to buy and sell bitcoin as freely and privately as possible, without KYC.
Mostro is a platform that allows people to carry out bitcoin buy-and-sell transactions without KYC, in a highly private, uncensored, and as decentralized a way as possible. Once complete, Mostro will not relay on a single person or company as a single point of failure: anyone will be able to become a Mostro operator and offer services to users in their region.
The idea is for it to be very easy to create a Mostro node and very hard to find and take down. Mostro uses Nostr as a data-transport layer to resist censorship.
