Shadowbip Mostro is live and open to everyone.

Shadowbip Mostro is a personally operated independent MostroP2P instance.

It runs on Bitcoin/Lightning infrastructure, using the Lightning node shadowbip, and its goal is to contribute with another independent operator to the Mostro ecosystem. Shadowbip Mostro is not limited to a specific country or fiat currency. It's open internationally to anyone who wants to trade Bitcoin P2P using the currencies and payment methods supported by Mostro.

What is Mostro?

Mostro is a peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading protocol built on Lightning and Nostr. One of the things I find most interesting about Mostro is that there doesn't have to be a single central coordinator. Independent operators can run their own Mostro instances, and users can choose which instance they want to use.

Shadowbip Mostro is an independently operated instance.

Shadowbip Mostro

• ⚡ Bitcoin / Lightning mainnet
• 🟣 Nostr-native
• 🔐 Protocol v2 / NIP-44
• 🧌 MostroP2P v0.18.4
• 💰 Maximum order: 1,000,000 sats
• 🌍 Open internationally
• 🏠 Independently operated and self-hosted

How to use Shadowbip Mostro

You don't need a separate Shadowbip application or account.

With Mostro Mobile:

1. Open Mostro Mobile.
2. Go to Settings.
3. Scroll down to the Mostro instance section.
4. Open the instance selector and add a custom instance.
5. Paste the Shadowbip Mostro npub: npub1mg36x8t42usn32upfxg35ppzfqf2xj76v7w2hf7trqj0ma79jtkqrj3q9m
6. Select Shadowbip Mostro as your active instance.

Once selected, you will be using Shadowbip Mostro instance and its order book, rather than another Mostro coordinator.

For clients or tools that use the raw public key, such as CLI setups:

Hex pubkey: da23a31d75572138ab8149911a04224812a34bda679caba7cb1824fdf7c592ec

You can also use compatible clients such as MostriX or mostro-cli.

A new instance needs users

Transparent about this: Shadowbip Mostro is new. An independent Mostro instance doesn't magically inherit the order book or trading activity of another coordinator.

The market has to grow organically as people start creating and taking orders.

That's why Shadowbip is looking for early users from anywhere in the world who want to try the instance, place orders and help bootstrap a new independent P2P market.

Feedback, interoperability testing and bug reports are also very welcome.

Lightning node operators

Shadowbip also operates the Lightning node behind the instance.

My Lightning node is:

Alias: shadowbip

Node pubkey: 03808d86fee8345c7b470f792f62e3a3cba78ad49d75d4623c8e27520c34f90d5b

If you're a Lightning node operator and think supporting another independent Bitcoin P2P market is worthwhile, new channel connections are welcome too. Of course, don't open a channel blindly just because Shadowbip is asking, evaluate the node and whether a channel makes sense for you, as you should with any Lightning peer.

Why Shadowbip is doing this?

Because having multiple independent operators is one of the most interesting aspects of Mostro.

Users should have a choice of coordinators instead of seeing P2P Bitcoin trading converge around another single centralized service. Shadowbip is going to operate and maintain Shadowbip Mostro and hopefully grow its order book gradually with real users.

If you already use Mostro Mobile, MostriX or https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro-cli, add Shadowbip Mostro and give it a try.

And if you become one of the first people to place or take a real order on the instance, even better.

More independent operators. More choice. More resilient Bitcoin P2P markets.