Running a Mostro 🧌 node doesn't require being a developer.
The Communities Program has a step-by-step guide and a
Telegram group where the team supports each community
through the process.
Nodes are already live in:
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇪🇸 Spain
🇨🇴 Colombia
🇧🇴 Bolivia
🇻🇪 Venezuela
Each one started from zero, with team support.
If you coordinate a Bitcoin community, the infrastructure
is available.
Guide 👉 https://t.co/r9FrzKLF8q
#Bitcoin #Nostr #P2P #Community
GOOGLE QUERÍA QUE PAGASE POR ESPACIO.
Mi Gmail NO podía más → 14.68/15GB.
Pasé de 14.6 GB a 2GB en unos minutos.
Espero que esto te ayude tanto como me ha ayudado a mí👇🏻
Alright guys! $1000 giveaway of Bitcoin Lightning. Reply with your [email protected] Lightning address from @cakewallet!
20 people will win $50 each! Winners to be announced Friday.
Mine is [email protected] for example!
🚨 PSA: a scammer has taken control of the https://t.co/hUrYquHLko domain. Do not be fooled into downloading malicious software.
How ironic that the FBI seizes control over the domain only for it to fall into the hands of actual criminals.
No borders. No flags. No governments in the middle. Just humans trading value directly. Mostro 🧌 connects peers across the world, one P2P trade at a time. 🌎⚡
🎉 We’ve got a big announcement today!
Mostro App Version 1.1.0 Beta is here 🚀
🧌 After 3 years of work, we’re finally releasing the first beta version of the Mostro app.
The app is now fairly stable and will keep improving with your feedback.
What’s new:
- Push notifications are now available, with improved background reliability
- Optional app logging system. You can capture logs and easily share them when something goes wrong
- Smarter relay updates for smoother and more reliable changes
- Visual refinements across the app
- SnackBars moved to the top so they no longer block bottom navigation
📱 Download the Mostro mobile app:
• Zapstore → https://t.co/EM2vwO509q
• GitHub → https://t.co/3aNArN11mE
📄 Full changelog:
https://t.co/3aNArN11mE
This is our first beta app and there is still work ahead.
Try it out, report issues, and contribute, we are an open-source project 😎
🙌 Special thanks to @HRF and @OpenSats for their support
“Solo mining a Bitcoin block is harder than winning the lottery”
While technically true, it's also deeply misleading.
Why? Because bitcoin mining gives you 144 chances per day, not just one.
And that frequency changes everything.
It's at least 46x more likely to solo mine a block per day.
I researched the two most popular lotteries: PowerBall and Mega Millions, and compared them to the odds of mining a block with 1 TH on the bitcoin network.
I used 900EH/s for the total network for simplicity.
What I learned might surprise you.
At first glance, the odds of hitting a block are much worse than winning the lottery, 3 times worse, in fact.
- 1 in 292M Powerball Jackpot odds
- 1 in 303M Mega Millions odds
- 1 in 900M for hitting a block
But that doesn't tell the full story.
This "one bitcoin block = one lottery drawing" is where the misconception is rooted.
Lottery drawings are infrequent events, while bitcoin mining is a relentless race
- Powerball drawings are 3x/week
- Mega Million drawings are 2x/week
- Bitcoin networks produces ~144 blocks daily and ~1008 blocks in a week
Even though the odds per block are low, when given 144 chances per day, your chance of at least one success grows pretty quickly.
Cumulative odds matter.
You check the lottery per day, or weekly, so those time frames are a more realistic baseline for comparison.
The probability of mining a block in a day is 1 in 6.25M
- 46 times better than the Powerball
- 48 times better than the Mega Millions
The gap widens when we look at longer time horizons (assuming buying 1 ticket per lottery drawing).
Per Week:
- Powerball (3x/week) 1 in 97M
- Mega Millions (2x/week) 1 in 151M
- 1TH Mini Miner (1008 attempts) 1 in 892k ✅
At least 108x better odds per week
Per Month:
- Powerball (12x/month) 1 in 22M
- Mega Millions (8x/month) 1 in 35M
- 1TH Mini Miner (4320 attempts) 1 in 208k ✅
At least 105x better odds per month
Per Year:
- Powerball (156x/year) 1 in 1.87M
- Mega Millions (104x/year) 1 in 2.90M
- 1TH Mini Miner (over 52,000 attempts) 1 in 17k ✅
At least 110x better odds per year
The numbers say it all.
When you repeat unlikely events often, your chance of success compounds.
So if you're comparing solo mining vs the lottery,
Don't compare one block to one ticket.
Compare a day of mining to one draw, where you would need to buy 46-48 lottery tickets to achieve the same odds.
When viewed over time, solo mining is far more likely to hit the "jackpot"
If you play the lottery regularly, do yourself a favor
Start home mining and never look back.
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 @lnp2pbot, @MostroP2P, and @RoboSats.
A couple of months ago, another developer created this very useful P2P dashboard where we can see all the orders that meet this standard.
https://t.co/jYlYuzAMKg
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
https://t.co/c5aUUhJSXm
More platforms to come... maybe @vexl and @hodlhodl 😃
Stay smart fam 🫡
Corporations are sucking all the bitcoin from the market.
They will sell you derivatives in the form of ETFs/BTC-per share, etc.
Exchanges withdraws limits will get lower and more expensive.
Self-custody is more important than ever.
Found a cool little website that shows you how to code a TCP/IP stack from scratch! This is all in C, so in addition to learning all about how networks work, you will learn a lot of C as well! Enjoy!
Here's Operating Systems: From 0 to 1! Ever wondered how an OS works? Nothing like implementing one from scratch to find out! This is all in C, so you'll learn a lot of the language, in addition to learning how OS's work! Enjoy!