Quick Start 🚀
On this site, you'll find information on how to use Mostro, a peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin exchange platform on the Lightning Network for any local currency. It operates on Nostr and does not require KYC procedures.
Quick Start Guide 🚀
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Have a Lightning Network-compatible wallet.
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Open any Mostro client.
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Follow the instructions of the client:
- The Mostro App creates your identity for you: back up its 12 words before your first trade.
- Choose the Mostro node you want to trade on.
- Find or create bitcoin buy/sell offers.
- Wait for an interested user.
- If you're buying sats, provide the invoice where you will receive the sats.
- If you're selling sats, pay the hold invoice (the sats will remain locked in your wallet until the end of the process).
- Some nodes also ask for a small anti-abuse deposit, which you get back when you trade in good faith.
- Talk to your counterparty. Agree on how to exchange the fiat. This is a private process.
- Complete the exchange.
- If your counterparty does not respond, start a dispute.
- Rate your counterparty. You will also be rated.
Already have a reputation on @lnp2pBot or another Mostro node? You can bring it with you.
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