Mostro: Bitcoin P2P without a Single Point of Failure
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Mostro presents a KYC-free, censorship-resistant Bitcoin P2P payments design that removes single points of failure to protect users under authoritarian regimes. The talk focuses on building peer-to-peer payment solutions on censorship-resistant platforms so dissidents, journalists, and activists can transact without centralized control.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Mostro and P2P without SPOF
- 2:16Bitcoin decentralization
- 4:24Mostro origins and evolution
- 7:10Mostro Telegram bot
- 8:57Mostro Nostr update
- 9:40KYC risks and criticisms
- 14:27KYC alternatives in P2P
- 15:32Mostro Nostr architecture
- 18:46Local Mostro communities
- 20:33Telegram SPOF risk
- 23:29Design for low connectivity
- 26:02Avoiding single points of failure
- 28:30Technical challenges and adoption
- 31:01Privacy and security in Mostro
- 33:11Mostro client open spec
- 35:00Development status and collaboration
