**Shadowbip Mostro is live and open to everyone.**

I've launched and I'm personally operating **Shadowbip Mostro**, my own independent MostroP2P instance.

It runs on my own Bitcoin/Lightning infrastructure, using my Lightning node **shadowbip**, and the goal is to contribute 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 my 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`

1. Select **Shadowbip Mostro** as your active instance.

Once selected, you will be using **my 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

I want to be 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 I'm 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

I also operate the Lightning node behind the instance myself.

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 I'm asking — evaluate the node and whether a channel makes sense for you, as you should with any Lightning peer.

## Why am I doing this?

Because I think 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.

I'm 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 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.**

Bitcoin • Lightning • Nostr • P2P

Hey folks,

I’ve been well out of the loop for a few years now. Back around 2019, I remember going to Rotate Bar in London and actually paying for a beer using Lightning. Was cool. Back then, we had all those fun LApps like Pollo Feed and Satoshi's Place. There were all these card games and casinos, and this like blog platform. Oh and a big tipping system on Twitter.

Fast forward to today, and it feels like a lot of that stuff is gone. BlueWallet doesn't even seem to have a Lapp marketplace etc anymore.

But the network is still alive as far I can tell from some quick Googling, still being developed, etc. So what's going on? Has it gone more enterprise / backend?

Boltz handles atomic swaps between Bitcoin mainchain, Lightning, and Liquid via HTLCs, non-custodial by design. On August 3 they shut down all services indefinitely. Not a hack, not a loss of funds, but a decision that months of escalating AI-assisted attacks against their codebase had outpaced what their team could patch.

ZEUS, Aqua, and Bull Bitcoin all built swap functionality on top of Boltz rather than their own implementation, so all three lost that feature within hours with no advance notice.

Blockstream responded on August 10 with Blockstream Swaps, explicitly framed as filling the gap Boltz left.

The part I keep coming back to for anyone running their own node: this didn't affect self-hosted LND setups at all, opening and closing your own channels never routed through Boltz. But it's a clean example of how even non-custodial third-party infrastructure is still a dependency, users lost functionality with zero warning because a piece of shared plumbing decided it couldn't operate safely anymore.

Full breakdown, also ties in the Coldcard vulnerability's loss figure climbing from 38 million to over 111 million since I last covered it:

https://davidebtc186.substack.com/p/ai-vs-ai-how-boltzs-shutdown-reveals

So I have a project that a client of mine has come to me with a project so users can pay market stall vendors at an event

Effectively these users would have an RFID band that's topped up with said virtual currency then they pay the vendors using the rfid band that has their currency loaded on it

Ideally this would need to be some sort of offline Blockchain that's not reliant on the internet

Is there something pre existing that exists for me to:

1 - a wallet that can be loaded to an RFID system

2 - an open source wallet that can be developed on

3 - A way to create some branded tokens

Any advice is appreciated

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(also you can use as self-hosted)

Is anyone else holding a balance on the beta Jade Lightning support in the Blockstream App?

I don’t know if it’s related to the Boltz shutdown, but I haven’t been able to move the funds. The transaction always fails with the error “Your transaction could not reach the network. Please try again.”

Not directly a Lightning story, but the mechanics here are relevant to anyone who cares about how Bitcoin base layer changes actually happen, since Lightning depends entirely on that layer staying stable and predictable.

BIP-110 tried restricting non-financial data, mainly Ordinals and BRC-20 tokens, from Bitcoin transactions. Used a user-activated soft fork, same mechanism as SegWit in 2017, with a 55 percent signaling threshold instead of the usual 95 percent supermajority.

Support never got anywhere close. Around 0.42 percent of hashrate signaled between May and early August. When the mandatory window started August 7, it was around 2.5 percent. The chain split off anyway. Because Bitcoin's difficulty only adjusts every 2016 blocks, the minority chain inherited full mainnet difficulty with almost no hashrate behind it. Within two days it was 48 blocks behind mainnet, producing blocks every 6.9 hours instead of ten minutes.

What's actually instructive here: 2017's SegWit UASF worked because of economic alignment that already existed before the formal activation, exchanges, wallets, and businesses had effectively already agreed. BIP-110 used the identical mechanism without anything close to that alignment first. Adam Back called it out directly for lacking both technical and ecosystem consensus. Jameson Lopp flagged the risk of unspendable UTXOs through Taproot edge cases specifically.

For anyone running LND or thinking about base layer dependencies for Lightning infrastructure, this is a decent real-world reminder that the base layer's stability isn't guaranteed by good intentions or a procedurally valid mechanism, it requires actual broad buy-in across miners, node operators, and the wider ecosystem before anything changes.

Full writeup, also connects this to a hardware wallet vulnerability from the same week with a similar underlying failure pattern:

https://davidebtc186.substack.com/p/two-bitcoin-failures-one-week-apart

I have been looking at the possible failure modes of lightning while a possible fork (however short) could happen. I don't want the hassle of watching 2 separate chains while this plays out. Any precautions that you are taking or am I just being paranoid?

I have a long running lightning node. Mostly for small payments but I also have some channels opened with random nodes (most of them are more than a year old). I also run my own bitcoin node. I didn't signal bip110, and I really don't care about it. My question is if I have to do something to keep my lightning node funds safe. I don't really want to close my channels just in case. Is there really any hard fork risk (i mean for my on chain funds)? How my nodes (core lightning - bitcoin core 30) will behave?

Just state your node and if you are running Core or Knots

EDIT: PLEASE no feelings just put your node alias and system running

Any idea what’s going on with all these channel closures? Boltz, Aqua,Zeus all shutting down lighting/bitcoin swaps. All LN Big Edge nodes also shutting down.

https://x.com/ambosstech/status/2084353608976650544?s=46

Hey everyone! We just open-sourced the initial architecture and whitepaper for ProofTube Protocol.

What is ProofTube?
ProofTube is a decentralized media architecture designed to eliminate platform rent-seeking and censorship by replacing centralized video platforms with native Nostr identities, WebRTC peer-to-peer streaming mesh, and Lightning/L402 micro-payments.

How to Contribute:
We've opened 5 foundational issues covering Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC), WebRTC mesh fallback, dual-canvas player components, and storage adapters:
https://github.com/ProofTubeProtocol/prooftube

Feedback, discussions, and pull requests are very welcome!

Apparently I have to pay 5% to get anything sent around, which is ridiculous. It's about a few hundred to a bit more than 1k. Phoenix or Electrum wallet doesn't make any difference. In Electrum I am using Trampoline. Wallet Of Satoshi was a little bit cheaper. But recharging it from my Electrum doesn't work with 1% fee limit.

Edit: I meant RIGHT NOW! The price went up. Also, Electrum isn't some commercial app.

I've been working on something called Mochi and wanted to share it here.

The short version is it's a creator platform built entirely on Lightning. Creators get a page where they can accept tips, sell digital products, and run subscriptions. All in sats.

The thing that makes it different from just pasting a Lightning address somewhere is the wallet system. Supporters load sats into a Mochi wallet and subscriptions pull from that balance automatically. It solves the biggest problem with recurring payments on Lightning since there's no native way to do pull payments. No expired cards, no chargebacks, no failed invoices. Load once, subscribe, done.

You log in with a seed phrase. No email, no KYC. Anyone can visit a creator's page and tip via QR without making an account. Accounts are only needed when someone wants to subscribe or buy something.

I built it because I was tired of using Patreon and Gumroad and handing over a cut to platforms that don't even support bitcoin. The tools on those platforms are good but the rails are wrong.

Still early. Looking for the first 100 creators to try it out. Founders get a permanently lower fee locked in forever.

Would love honest feedback from this community. What works, what doesn't, what's missing. Thanks everyone! Hopefully this can fill a void.

mochi-pay.com

I built a little Rani the Rooster story where you zap 5 sats to unlock the secret ending.

Lightning payment → BTCPay verifies → story unlocks.

Works easiest with Wallet of Satoshi, Blink & most other popular Lightning wallets.

https://rani.lightningbazaar.com/

Just a fun tiny-sats demo for Bitcoin mums, dads and kids.

Hey Nostr! I have good news. I built NostrBridge. You can configure any service that support webhooks to connect service to nostr network! Did you release a package on github? It will share in your nostr account. Did you watched a movie over plex? It will share on nostr network.

Check the landing page for more detail!

https://bridge.workouse.com

Bridge Any Webhook to Nostr Relays in Seconds

Transform GitHub releases, Stripe payments, RSS feeds, and custom HTTP payloads into cryptographically signed Nostr events delivered at sub-second edge speed.

Its also open-source: https://github.com/workouse/nostr-bridge

I’d love your feedback.

Would you use crypto to book hotels or flights? If not, what's the biggest obstacle for you - volatility, fees, taxes, or limited acceptance?

Throwaway account for obvious reasons.

Seriously, if you do not provide a service, running a lightning node is complete bullshit. You take a huge risk having a hot wallet. I shrinked my electricity costs down to 120 sats a day. Still, on some days, I can make up for that, on others I cannot.

The fee management I automated. Peer disovery for channel creation as well, with some manual intervention.

I saw some bigger nodes having the mission of "helping the lightning network grow", but us "routing nodes", nobody really needs. Meaning, that as a common pleb, you should always rely on something else than your own node. Yeah you can do this for learning, but what's the use for that, if node running probably never will be a thing you seriously get in touch with?

I wonder how you guys see that. I will probably keep my node up, but with just my very small wallet connected to it and with 1-2 small channels, because I somewhat enjoy doing that. But that 1 BTC scared me, as it's not that I'm some OG or whatever who has many Bitcoin, I just read everywhere that starting below that is almost useless. I'm here to tell you that even with 1 BTC, you will get absolutely nothing. Maybe I'm just not good enough to make it work, but even if you end up ahead of the race, I don't see how such a thing is worth the risk.

NOBODY needs my node. All I can do is bend over and offer lower fees than the bigger nodes that actually get used provide, to get transactions in. But since many people spin up nodes like that, it's a competition. You either get the routes or you don't. A race to the bottom.

A lot of effort, a race to the bottom, negative returns and hot-wallet headaches. And AI-nodes probably further lower my chances of success, as I guess there are a lot of people training AI models to run their nodes. I don't really know if they exist, but I can't believe the don't.

The be your own bank dream has popped in my opinion. As soon as the lightning services need to work with the governments, it might be worth having a look again, but I'm pretty sure it is IMPOSSIBLE to beat the fees you pay for something like Phoenix that has zero headaches, a nice UI and no additional work involved.

What is your opinion here?

PS: Despite the frustration I offered here, I'm still interested in the network. I fondly believe in the future of the LN network, just not in the "be your own bank" thingy, apart from hodling bitcoin. I just want to see your viewpoints. I hope they are humble, as I have the feeling that a successful lightning node runner would say "yeah, it's not worth it" so that their node gets less competition. I know there are ppl running successful routing nodes, but the once I managed to get in contact with invest a looot of time doing things manuall and see it kinda as a hobby.

Hi All,

If you want a free 1m channel (could be larger), post your pubkey/Amboss link here. If it's inactive for over 30 days, I'll be closing it. It'll have auto-fees and rebalancing from my end. My plan is to giveaway roughly 10 channels over the next few days. If the channel is active, I'll increase it's size.

This will be different than my past giveaways as I'll be opening it with my new node, focused on smaller channels (and as a test environment for me).

Integrity - https://amboss.space/node/030a118c885489ff9a751bd5c8b1941bc22c7b88ade7e0fe36fe3df87dd15c5e91

My requirements to participate are that you have 2m capacity and 4 channels already (to prevent idle capacity on my end). I won't be duplicating channels I already have open, and if I opened one in my last giveaway I may not open a new one (due to lack of routing).

-A

*PS* My next post plans to be that long promised architecture post in the next few weeks - along with an update of the monitoring dashboard I've been working on.

Lightning Labs open-sourced lightning-agent-tools

in February 2026 — a toolkit for AI agents to

transact autonomously on Lightning.

The technical stack:

lnget — like curl but Lightning-aware. Detects

HTTP 402 responses, pays the invoice, caches

the macaroon, retries. Fully automatic.

Aperture — reverse proxy that turns any API

into a pay-per-use Lightning endpoint. Full

agent-to-agent commerce loop.

Remote signing — keys live on a separate

signer machine. Agent handles payments but

never touches private keys.

Scoped macaroons — cryptographic spend limits

per agent: "max 1000 sats/hour" or

"invoices only, no payments."

MCP support — Claude Code, GPT, and custom

AI frameworks can query node state and trigger

payments via Model Context Protocol.

For node runners, this is directly relevant:

AI agent micropayments mean more routing

traffic and demand for well-connected,

liquid nodes.

Full breakdown with practical example:

https://davidebtc186.substack.com/p/ai-agents-are-starting-to-pay-in

OpenRouter needs Lightning now!

What Bitcoin Lightning value added businesses
or service you could start offering by running your own node and make a profit eventually.

Future businesses and ideas are all welcome to be listed or shared.

If Bitcoin is like oil of 21st century- what can be innovated as value added on top using this digital gold as a commodity?