bestiario — the Mostro network, in the open

bestiario is a public observatory for Mostro, a peer-to-peer bitcoin trading network built on Nostr and the Lightning Network. It reports how much the network moved, in which currencies, through which instances, and how many of its orders completed.

How the figures get here

Every figure comes from a statistics document that Mostro's publisher signs and broadcasts as a Nostr event. Your browser fetches those events from public relays, checks the signature against the publisher's key, re-hashes the payload, and compares it to the hash the signed index names. Three outcomes, and this site is built on keeping them apart: a figure nobody published reads as absent and never as a zero, a figure worked out from other figures is marked as inferred, and a document whose proof failed shows the failure and no figure at all.

What it does not do

There is no backend, no account, no analytics and no tracker. The site is static files and a WebSocket to a relay. Two things are kept in your browser's own storage and nowhere else: the language you chose, and the documents it has already verified, held so that a second visit is not a second download. Neither is ever sent anywhere, and neither names you.

Sections

Overview — the live world map, the currency matrix and the open-dispute book. Orders — orders created, completed and canceled, per currency and per instance. Volume — amounts in sats and in fiat, ticket sizes and the buy/sell split, across windows from 24 hours to the whole archive.

More

mostro.network — the project. Source code — this site, MIT licensed.