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nostrrecap 3 months ago
=========================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week =========================== @Derek Ross “Nostr is a village and it's going to take all of us to build it. Don't hold back.” #quote_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 3 months ago
=========================== #3 🌱 Ecosystem Growth =========================== Nostr is growing fast! According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are now over 140 Nostr clients and over 450 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe. According to https://nostr.watch, there are more than 850 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment. According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: - Total Users: 2,552, compared to 1,519 zaps the week before image According to https://stats.nostr.band, During last week: - Total zaps: 37,499, compared to 35,950 zaps the week before image - Total zap senders: 2,847, compared to 2,677 plebs the week before image - Total zap amount: 6,831,789, compared to 6,292,007 sats the week before image - Total events: 2,651,955, compared to 2,507,267 events the week before image Many thanks to by @Pip the WoT guy and @franzap, by @npub1xdtd...ntxy, all the contributors of and https://nostr.watch for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 3 months ago
============================= #4 🎓 Educational Guides ============================= 1. HOW TO USE NOSTR | Mini tutorial using PRIMAL @Final Step Bitcoin #education_nostr_recap
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============================ #6 📰 Nostr in the Media ============================ 1. Escape The Social Media Matrix with Bitcoin & Nostr @Alekandar Svetski, @walker 2. Nostr vs RSS 3. No More Nostr Service Providers (NSPs) and Why That Matters @Soapbox, @Derek Ross 4. Derek Ross is at Nostr World Unconference in Uvita, Costa Rica in 2023 5. Vibe Code Mastery for Nostr DMs 6. Identity: Passwords to PIN to Nostr! 7. Nostr in spanish @Jordi Llonch Esteve #media_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 3 months ago
================================== #9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases ================================== 1. Peridot - New Tool Peridot is a Nostr bunker application for desktop that securely stores and manages your Nostr keys locally, allowing safe signing and relay communication without exposing private keys to external clients. Developed by: @Russell Source: 2. Nostr Gatekeeper - New Tool Nostr Gatekeeper is a reliable Nostr Connect bunker that securely handles signing requests and key management, ensuring smooth and safe interaction between Nostr clients and your private keys. Developed by: @hzrd149 Source: 3. Coracle - 0.6.24 Coracle is an experimental Nostr client designed to unlock the full potential of multiple relays, enabling users to browse, filter, zap, and create custom feeds for a personalized Nostr experience. This release introduces the use of a new shipyard public key and includes minor optimizations to improve performance and stability. Developed by: @hodlbod Source: 4. Primal Android App - 2.5.17 The Primal Android app is an end-user tool for Nostr, providing a feature-rich Android client for browsing, interacting with, and streaming content within the Nostr ecosystem. In this version, it introduced delete repost for notes, live stream caching, rewind and fast-forward with seek bar support, deep link handling, and expanded QR code support for NEVENT, NADDR, and nprofile types. It also improved usability with collapsible stream player, stream control popups, and stream-ended state handling. Numerous fixes addressed UX issues, chat scrolling, zap/message display, stream playback, thread screen jumps, crashes, and video background behavior, while maintenance updates included an upgrade to Kotlin 2.2 and migration to PlayerSurface for note video previews. Developed by: Aleksandar Ilic Source: 5. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.9.13 Nostr Ynstant Messenger is an end-user Nostr-based chat client designed for both ephemeral and persistent messaging, with integration to Bitchat for anonymous and temporary communications. In version v2.9.13, it introduced default image blurring with optional unblur, and added support for NIP-72 communities, enabling community-based moderation and enhanced control over shared content. Developed by: @Luxas Source: 6. Gitplaza - v0.13.0 GitPlaza is a desktop Nostr client focused on managing Git-related activities, providing features for browsing repositories, viewing users, and tracking activity with trust indicators. In this release, it added a “Repos” tab and a “People” tab with search bars, introduced a hashtag filter in the activity feed, added repo topic chips, enabled searching for repos in profile views, and displayed trust indicators in various views. It also fixed issues with the top zap chip and removed the now-obsolete “Explore” tab. Developed by: @dluvian Source: #tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 3 months ago
=========================================== #10 🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases =========================================== 1. Nostr-java - v0.5.1 Nostr-java is a Java SDK for the Nostr protocol that provides developers with tools to create, sign, and publish Nostr events to relays. This release, introduces major improvements including enhanced documentation with API references and how-to guides, better error handling with dedicated exceptions, validation tests, and significant code refactoring for cleaner, more reliable performance. It also features CI/CD workflow enhancements, dependency updates, and automated quality checks, making it a robust and developer-friendly library for integrating Nostr functionality into Java applications. Developed by: @398ja Source: 2. Noscrypt - v0.1.13 Noscrypt is a Nostr-specific cryptography library written in C, designed to handle the cryptographic operations required by the Nostr protocol. The latest update improves compatibility and performance with updates to vnlib.core (version 0.1.3) and MSTest (version 3.11.0). It includes revised build scripts using a centralized Directory.Build.props file, modernized shell commands for Task v3.45, and enhanced testing accuracy through stricter exception handling. Additionally, parallel builds are now supported across all platforms with cmake -j, making the library faster and more efficient for developers implementing secure Nostr functionality. Developed by: @ChipTuner Source: 3. Mostro-core - v0.6.56 Mostro-core is a Rust-based library that provides peer-to-peer functionality for building decentralized applications on Nostr, forming the foundation for the Mostro daemon. In this release, it introduced the SynchUserTradeIndex Action to synchronize the last trade index, improved verification checks and session restoration, aligned actions with updated protocol specifications, and included minor bug fixes and performance enhancements. Developed by: @negrunch, @Pinball Wizard Source: 4. Mostro CLI - v0.14.0 Mostro CLI is a simple command-line interface for interacting with Mostro, displaying new replaceable events, and supporting trade and order management on Nostr. In this version, it added improved error logging, rabbit fixes, enhanced gift wrap decryption, handling of user-initiated disputes, correct last trade index calculations, and support for invalid fiat currency. It also introduced a first testable version with the last_trade_index command, improved message parsing and management, refined database operations to avoid UNIQUE constraint errors, and included various refactors, CI improvements, and documentation updates for better usability and maintainability. This is the biggest update, and the latest update was v0.14.1 last week. Developed by: @Pinball Wizard, @Andrea Díaz Correia Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 4 months ago
=========================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week =========================== @Ryan “You're free to post what you want. Relay operators are free to host what they want. You're free to host your own relay. Users are free to block what they want. Clients are free to block what they want. Users are free to use whatever client they want.” #quote_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 4 months ago
=========================== #3 🌱 Ecosystem Growth =========================== Nostr is growing fast! According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are now over 140 Nostr clients and over 450 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe. According to https://nostr.watch, there are more than 850 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment. According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: - Total Users: 1519, compared to 1621 zaps the week before image According to https://stats.nostr.band, During last week: - Total zaps: 35,950, compared to 34,070 zaps the week before image - Total zap senders: 2,677, compared to 2,609 plebs the week before image - Total zap amount: 6,292,007, compared to 10,279,977 sats the week before image - Total events: 2,502,744, compared to 2,282,427 events the week before image Many thanks to by @Pip the WoT guy and @franzap, by @npub1xdtd...ntxy, all the contributors of and https://nostr.watch for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 4 months ago
============================= #4 🎓 Educational Guides ============================= 1. NOSTR Explained for Beginners ⚡️✨ @Daniella ✨ #education_nostr_recap
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================================== #9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases ================================== 1. Flotilla - 1.3.0 Flotilla is a Discord-like Nostr client designed around the concept of “relays as groups,” enabling users to chat, manage spaces, and interact in a decentralized way. This release introduces optional badges and sounds for notifications, improves link rendering, restores Blossom feature detection for spaces, and enhances the light theme. It also adds more signer status information, simplifies navigation for adding spaces, enables QR code scanning for invite links, streamlines wallet setup with improved receive address settings, switches mobile storage to Capacitor file API, and fixes duplicate DMs. Developed by: @hodlbod Source: 2. Coop - v0.2.11 Coop is a simple and reliable Nostr client designed for secure messaging across all platforms. In this release, the focus was on improving message handling, with refactoring of the message sending process and follow-up fixes to ensure smoother and more efficient communication within the app. Developed by: @npub1zfss...w445 Source: 3. Yakihonne Mobile App - 1.9.1 Yakihonne is a cross-platform mobile app built with Flutter that provides a seamless Nostr experience, allowing users to interact with relays, manage keys securely, and engage with content across platforms. In this release, the app introduced a redesigned app bar with new Black and Ivory themes, a database-first architecture supporting offline mode, relay orbits for easier relay discovery, Nsec bunker integration, updated content boxes and video types, and default custom reactions. Performance optimizations were applied across feeds, notifications, content sharing, and searching, alongside clickable relay URLs, improved handling of Nostr schemes, and various bug fixes for a smoother user experience. Developed by: Boukhalfa Seddik Source: #tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 4 months ago
====================================== #11 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases ====================================== 1. Nosflare - v7.4.13 Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay built using Cloudflare Workers and the D1 database, designed for scalability and efficiency without traditional server infrastructure. In this release, a hotfix was introduced to address an issue where durable objects were not utilizing the hibernation API properly. This fix improves resource management and relay performance, ensuring more stable and cost-efficient operation. Developed by: @Luxas Source: #relays_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 4 months ago
=========================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week =========================== @The Daniel 🖖 “we, here, the tiny handful of us using Nostr might be the only people in the entire world who care about free speech enough to want to protect it.” #quote_nostr_recap
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=========================== #3 🌱 Ecosystem Growth =========================== Nostr is growing fast! Overview - Pubkeys: 45031934 - Users: 1195150 - Trusted users: 187745 - Events: 613689586 - Posts: 163353365 - Zaps: 5514634 - Zap amount: 2546778742 sats According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr/, there are now over 140 Nostr clients and over 450 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe. According to https://nostr.watch/, there are more than 850 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment. During last week: - Total zaps: 34,070, compared to 32,162 zaps the week before image - Total zap senders: 2,609, compared to 805 plebs the week before image - Total zap amount: 10,279,977, compared to 8,584,091 sats the week before image - Total events: 2,275,515, compared to 2,331,002 events the week before image Many thanks to by @npub1xdtd...ntxy, all the contributors of and https://nostr.watch/ for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap
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================================== #9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases ================================== 1. PODSTR - New tool A Nostr-powered podcast platform for single creators that blends decentralized publishing with Podcasting 2.0. It supports npub-authenticated publishing, Blossom or external hosting, rich metadata, Lightning payments, auto-generated RSS feeds, a mobile-friendly player, and community interaction through comments, zaps, and social features - all built on open Nostr protocols. Developed by: @Derek Ross Source: 2. White Noise - v0.1.4 White Noise is a secure, private, and decentralized chat app built on Nostr, using the MLS protocol for encrypted group messaging. This release brings a major backend refactor for improved stability, performance, and relay handling, alongside Android-specific security fixes and numerous bug resolutions. It also adds features like editable group names, secure message drafts, and a key package management screen. With redesigned chat sheets, better emoji/reaction handling, skeleton loaders, and consistent UI polish, White Noise is now faster, more stable, and more user-friendly across platforms. Developed by: @JeffG , @pepi, @Mubarak Ibrahim, @npub1gcs5...e8d0, @untreu, @npub1jgm0...669p, Delcin Maria Koilraj Source: 3. Gitplaza - v0.10.0 GitPlaza is a desktop Nostr client specialized for managing Git-related activity on the Nostr network. In this release, it introduces a web-of-trust indicator based on follows, upvotes, reposts, and proof-of-work. Users can toggle pubkey selection in feeds, toggle content types, retry keystore lookups, and see profile names of referenced events. Performance improvements include discarding outdated query tasks, optimizing subscription filters, and reducing database queries. Bug fixes address deadlocks, and enhancements allow loading names in Zap receipts and making top Zap chips interactive. Developed by: @dluvian Source: 4. Coracle - 0.6.23 Coracle is a web client for the Nostr protocol focused on enhancing the user experience with features like relay selection and management, web-of-trust based moderation, content recommendations, and privacy protection. The latest release adds a loading indicator when following or unfollowing users and introduces relay fallback support for Zaps. Developed by: @hodlbod Source: 5. Mostro - v0.14.5 Mostro is a Lightning Network peer-to-peer exchange platform built on Nostr, enabling users to trade directly over a decentralized network. This release includes a bug fix ensuring that makers are always notified when their orders are taken, improving the reliability of order notifications. Developed by: @negrunch Source: 6. Alby Lightning Browser Extension - 🪐🐆 Leopard Spots on Martian Rocks 🪨🔭 - v3.13.0 Alby is a Bitcoin Lightning Browser Extension that brings deep Lightning and Nostr integration to the web, providing a wallet interface for multiple Lightning nodes and a key signer for Nostr, Liquid, and on-chain Bitcoin. This release adds important features and fixes, including LNbits connector improvements, support for connecting CLN nodes through NWC, a Ukrainian locale, a right-click menu to pay invoices or addresses, revamped “Pin Extension” screen layout, metadata support for transactions, and various UI and bug fixes for a smoother user experience. Developed by: @npub1gv5s...hgdr, @René Aaron, Dunsin Source: 7. Coop - v0.2.10 Coop is a simple, fast, and reliable Nostr client for secure messaging across all platforms. In this release, it brings several improvements, including a refactored input component for better performance, fixes for double messages and duplicate replies, and a new context menu for quick profile viewing. Additionally, it now consistently calls get_public_key on NIP-46, ensuring more reliable key handling. These updates make Coop more stable, user-friendly, and efficient for everyday messaging. This was the latest release, and there was the release of v0.2.9 last week. Developed by: @npub1zfss...w445 Source: 8. Bitchat - v1.4.3-actual Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that combines Bluetooth mesh networks for offline communication with the Nostr protocol for global connectivity, eliminating the need for accounts, phone numbers, or central servers. In this release, it introduces a general localization framework with support for multiple languages, including English, Italian, Spanish, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Nepali, Indonesian, Russian, Ukrainian, French, Arabic, and Hebrew. Additionally, it now includes Mermaid diagrams for packet structures and externalized strings to improve localization. These updates make Bitchat more accessible to a global audience while enhancing clarity and developer support. Developed by: @jack, Mattia Marchese Source: #tools_nostr_recap
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=========================================== #10 🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases =========================================== 1. Android Signer (NIP-55) - New Developer tool A Nostr-based library that allows applications to interact with Android signers following the NIP-55 protocol. It provides secure, standardized, and verifiable signing of Nostr events directly on Android devices, enabling developers to integrate trusted event signing, authentication, and value-for-value operations within their apps. Developed by: @npub1drvp...seet Source: 2. Mostro Core - v0.6.54 Mostro Core is a Rust-based library that provides peer-to-peer functionality for decentralized applications and serves as the foundation for building the Mostro daemon. In this release it fixes issues by removing targets that do not support dynamic linking and includes general release updates for stability. Developed by: @Pinball Wizard Source: 3. Mostro CLI - v0.13.6 Mostro CLI is a command-line client for interacting with the Mostro P2P Lightning Network exchange on Nostr. This release updates removed Android builds, eliminated unnecessary dependencies (like sqlx, protobuf, and openssl) from GitHub Actions and Rust workflows, added strict tag checking in cliff.toml, improved changelog handling, and bumped the release version for consistency. This was the latest release, and there were also the releases of v0.13.5 and v0.13.4 also last week. Developed by: @Pinball Wizard Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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====================================== #11 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases ====================================== 1. CFRelay - 0.0.4 CFRelay is a Nostr relay built on Cloudflare Workers, offering a lightweight and easily deployable relay solution. This release improves configuration management by moving many settings into wrangler.toml for easier setup and adds support for Cloudflare one-click deploy, making deployment more seamless and user-friendly. Developed by: @DASHU Source: 2. Nosflare - v7.4.11 Nosflare is a Nostr relay (a server-side application that handles event storage and distribution) built serverless using Cloudflare Worker and D1 database. This release includes a hotfix that lowers the archive batch size and adds daily database optimization. This is the latest release, and there were also the releases of v7.4.10, v7.4.9, v7.4.8, v7.3.8, and v7.3.7 last week. Developed by: @Luxas Source: #relays_nostr_recap
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=========================== #1 🧠 Quote of the Week =========================== @TKay “Freedom of speech is not under attack. People willingly lock themselves in cells.” #quote_nostr_recap
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=========================== #3 🌱 Ecosystem Growth =========================== Nostr is growing fast! Overview - Pubkeys: 44867082 - Users: 1194210 - Trusted users: 195030 - Events: 611323979 - Posts: 162601567 - Zaps: 5479278 - Zap amount: 2536762943 sats According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr/, there are now over 140 Nostr clients and over 450 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe. According to https://nostr.watch/, there are more than 850 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment. During last week: - Total zaps: 32,029, compared to 31,931 zaps the week before image - Total zap senders: 672, compared to 671 plebs the week before image - Total zap amount: 8,583,958, compared to 7,308,787 sats the week before image - Total events: 2,326,691, compared to 2,666,715 events the week before image Many thanks to by @npub1xdtd...ntxy, all the contributors of and https://nostr.watch/ for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap