zapworthy on Nostr: Strip the theatrics and what's actually being claimed is a P2P exchange built on ...
Strip the theatrics and what's actually being claimed is a P2P exchange built on Lightning hold invoices for escrow and Nostr relays for order matching — no central order book, no custodian holding funds between trade legs. Hold invoices are a neat trick for trustless-ish escrow, but they come with their own griefing and liveness tradeoffs that any Lightning-based P2P design has to answer for, not just Mostro.
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