Primal users, we need your help! Now that everyone has upgraded to Primal 2.1 (if you haven’t please do so), we want to focus on bug fixing and making Primal rock-solid. Please let us know of anything you find that isn’t working correctly, looks wrong, or that you find annoying. Thank you! 🫡

Zaps must flow

Hey Nostr, Primal 2.1 has just been released. Here’s what we have for you: - Improved feeds. All feeds are now richer and smoother. Improved rendering and inline players are now available for X, YouTube, Spotify and Tidal. More to come! - Primal Wallet NWC support. Primal Wallet users are now able to connect their wallet to any Nostr app. Use this feature to enable zapping from any app in Nostr’s growing ecosystem. Manage the list of connected apps in your Primal Wallet settings. - Primal Web App NWC support. Enable zapping from the Primal web app in Settings / Connected Wallets. If you already have an active Primal wallet, simply click “Connect” and you are done! If you wish to use a different wallet, simply create a NWC connection. - Legend cards. We created the Primal Legend tier to recognize users who made a significant contribution to Nostr and/or Primal. As a sign of gratitude to our Legends, we implemented Legend cards containing Primal shoutouts for each legend. You can see them by clicking on the Legend badge on the user profile screen. Hope you’ll enjoy this release; and by all means let us know what you’d like to see next! Pura vida. ☀️

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Huge thanks to everyone who joined Primal Premium or purchased Primal Legend in 2024. You’re proving that Nostr’s early users are just as committed as the builders. Thank you for your vote of confidence; we will make you proud. Love you all. 💜☀️

My Nostr predictions for 2025 Exactly one year ago I published my Nostr predictions for 2024. Some came true, but most were, shall we say, aspirational, and, if we want to be generous, directionally correct. Happy to continue in the same vein and go out on a limb for 2025. Here we go, ordered by likelihood of coming true: 1. Primal will become much, MUCH better. Primal 3.0 will be a bigger leap forward than Primal 2.0 was. We will surprise everyone by the features, speed, level of polish, and ease of use. 2. Many other Nostr clients will impress by their progress in a relatively short time frame. If I had to pick one, I have a really good feeling about Highlighter. 3. Way more bitcoiners will join Nostr. While we currently only have a small subset of bitcoin enjoyers on Nostr, the new features and unique content will make Nostr irresistible to anyone interested in bitcoin. 4. Bitcoin-adjacent communities will start to discover and join Nostr. This will include health & wellness, financial twitter, human rights, libertarians, and other communities. As a result, the network will grow and become more formidable. 5. Spammers gonna spam. With the growth of the network, spammers will return in force. They will be sophisticated and relentless, putting all of our spam mitigation services to the test. 6. The Blossom protocol will make media hosting on Nostr much more robust and resistant to censorship. 7. Long form content will start to hit its stride on Nostr. This includes textual long form content (blogs, essays, articles, etc.) as well as long form video content. 8. Multiple Nostr projects will find effective and ethical ways to monetize, marking a watershed moment for the protocol. We will witness the formation of the first cohort of real businesses on Nostr, signaling the inevitable changing of the guard and the eventual extinction of the Legacy Web. 9. Nostr will experience a glimpse of what a ‘suddenly’ mainstream adoption moment looks like. 10. By the end of the year, everyone - even the haters - will realize that Nostr is going to win. 11. @ODELL will accuse me of not being bullish enough. One thing is certain: we will keep pushing until we will this thing into existence. 🤝 Anyhow, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Pura Vida, and Peace and Love to you all! ♥️☀️

Just published a blog post on Primal Premium: what it is, why we built it, what’s included, and how it will evolve moving forward: View article →

Apologies to Primal wallet users for the service disruption last night / this morning. During this period users could access their wallet balances and transaction lists, as well as send and receive funds between Primal users. However external transactions were not possible. All systems are now operational. We are working on improving the system to making it more resilient moving forward. Thank you for your understanding.