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nostrrecap 3 days ago
#3 image Nostr is growing! According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are now over 240 Nostr clients and over 500 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe. According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days): πŸ‘‰πŸ» Amethyst - 835 Users - 13.9k Notes πŸ‘‰πŸ» Primal Android - 664 Users - 7.0k Notes πŸ‘‰πŸ» Primal Web - 564 Users - 3.6k Notes Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists): πŸ‘‰πŸ» http://relay.momostr.pink/ - 302.1k Users πŸ‘‰πŸ» - 229.2k Users πŸ‘‰πŸ» http://relay.primal.net - 194.6k Users According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/, πŸ‘‰πŸ» Publishing Users last week: 12.40M (+22.7%) πŸ‘‰πŸ» New Publishing Users Last week: 11.01M (-9.2%) πŸ‘‰πŸ» All-time Zap Count: 6.87M πŸ‘‰πŸ» All-time Zap BTC Amount: 42.93 BTC πŸ‘‰πŸ» All-time Zap Senders: 178.0K According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: πŸ‘‰πŸ» Total Users: 6,212 users, compared to 4,571 users the week before image Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by @JeffG , by @Pip the WoT guy and all the contributors of for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 3 days ago
#4 image 1. Create Your Nostr Account on Ditto @Soapbox 2. LiberMedia: How to Use the Decentralized Nostr Platform #education_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 4 days ago
#5 image 1. Nostr London Meetup (2140) - June 2026 πŸ“… Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 9.00 PM BST πŸ“ Location: TBA πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: @2140.wtf NOSTR APP πŸ”— Event: https://www.meetup.com/nostr_london/events/308639465/ 2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - July 2026 πŸ“… Date: Sunday, July 05, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT πŸ“ Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: @fractalchris πŸ”— Event: #events_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 4 days ago
#6 image 1. Deep Dive: Where is Nostr Today? @rabble, @JeffG , @PABLOF7z 2. Nostr on the onion, plus more tor stuff 3. nsyte, a new way to publish websites to the decentralized web 4. Asynconf, Nostr and open source #media_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 6 days ago
#9 image 1. Aura - v0.1.0-beta.2 - New Tool Aura is a Nostr-based social app where people share emotions as color moments and connect through mutual vibes rather than profiles. With no accounts, follower counts, ads, or public engagement metrics, Aura enables private, feeling-first connections built on shared emotions. In this release, Aura launches its first public beta, introducing color moments, mutual vibe-based connections, private β€œwhispers” messaging, social features such as the Room, sync streaks, and Constellation, opt-in city-level discovery, Android home-screen widgets, mute and report tools, and key backup options, while leveraging multiple Nostr standards for presence, messaging, encrypted lists, and social interactions. Developed by: @Derek Ross Source: 2. Nostr Mail Client - v0.13.0 Nostr Mail Client is an email application built on the Nostr protocol that enables sending and receiving encrypted emails through a familiar mail interface. In v0.13.0, the release adds address book contacts for easier email management, updates the default background to use the primary container color for a more consistent appearance, and fixes email avatar colors to be generated deterministically so contacts maintain a consistent visual identity across sessions. This was the latest, and there was also one more release (v0.12.5) last week. Contributed by: @Russell Source: 3. Amber - v6.2.1 Amber is an Android signer app that securely manages Nostr keys and signs events for other Nostr applications without exposing private keys. In this release Amber focused on performance, reliability, and usability improvements, reducing battery drain from relay reconnects and WebSocket pings, removing dead relays from subscription pools, and preventing unnecessary device wake-ups during notification updates. The release also modernizes the settings interface with Material 3 styling, adds support for NIP-46 logout and event kind 39701 (Public Web Bookmark), improves handling of invalid bunker requests, fixes several crashes and a database connection leak, refreshes UI titles when languages change, and updates the app to Kotlin 2.4.0 and Gradle 9.5.1. Contributed by: @greenart7c3 Source: 4. Nostria - v3.1.46 Nostria is a social Nostr client focused on user-friendly interaction with decentralized feeds, profiles, and notifications. In v3.1.46, the update improves core UX stability by fixing accidental reactions while scrolling, note editor resizing issues, and occasional avatar disappearing bugs. It also adds a new setting to disable interaction sounds and improves settings architecture with proper sub-routing per section. The notification system was redesigned so counters now only reflect genuinely new activity after login or after β€œmark all as read,” preventing old or previously loaded notifications from incorrectly inflating the unread count. While this was the biggest release of the week, there were also the releases of v3.1.48 and v3.1.49. Contributed by: @SondreB Source: 5. Bitchat - v1.5.2 Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that combines offline Bluetooth mesh networking with internet-based Nostr relays for global communication, designed for accountless, serverless messaging. In this release the update focuses heavily on stability, security, and architecture improvements: it rate-limits iOS peer notifications to prevent flooding, strengthens Nostr validation and BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) checks, and fixes multiple chat and macOS UI issues. The release significantly expands test coverage across transport, identity, and media flows (up to ~99%), refactors core BLE and chat architecture for better performance and maintainability, improves CI reliability, and enhances reliability of relay handling, voice messages, and media components, while also introducing performance gains and improved mesh connectivity behavior. This was the biggest release of the week, and the latest was v1.5.3. Contributed by: @jack, @calle, Islam, chernomortsev evgeny, Artem Lytkin Source: 6. NymChat - v3.70.477 Nymchat is an ephemeral, privacy-focused chat client built on the Nostr protocol, with optional bridging to Bitchat for temporary and pseudonymous messaging. In this release the update adds a kaomoji picker triggered via a β€œ\” command and introduces the ability to switch cameras during video calls for better usability. It also includes important hotfixes, resolving issues where zap badges would disappear and fixing a bug where message signature verification was not consistently preserved. This was the biggest, and there were a lot more releases last week. Contributed by: @Luxas Source: 7. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.2.8 Mostro Mobile Client is a secure mobile application for interacting with the Mostro peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading protocol, allowing users to create, manage, and settle decentralized trades. In this release, the update significantly expands trading and bond-based anti-abuse mechanisms, including maker bonds to reduce spam, bond payout workflows, and improved handling of bond-slashed and cancellation states. It also improves order history and notifications, adds fiat amount limits in order creation, and enhances relay discovery by switching to bootstrap-based peer discovery. The release includes multiple fixes for session handling, bond payout flows, and trade state consistency, making the trading lifecycle more reliable and resistant to out-of-order or malformed events. Contributed by: @Catrya, @Andrea DΓ­az Correia Source: 8. Dark Wisp - v1.0.0 Dark Wisp is a mobile Nostr client designed for browsing, posting, and interacting with the Nostr social network with a strong focus on privacy and relay routing. In v1.0.0, it introduces private interactions such as private replies, reactions, and zaps, along with embedded Tor support with fail-closed routing to enforce anonymous connectivity. The release also adds support for NIP-A3 payment targets (kind 10133) and includes a performance-related fix reverting packaging changes that caused regressions on GrapheneOS devices. This was the latest, and there was one more release last week. (v0.0.1-alpha) Contributed by: @utxo the webmaster πŸ§‘β€πŸ’» Source: #tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 6 days ago
#10 image 1. Mostro Core - v0.13.0 Mostro Core is a Rust-based library that provides peer-to-peer functionality for decentralized applications and serves as the foundation of the Mostro ecosystem. In v0.13.0, Mostro Core introduced Protocol v2, replacing relay-based communication with direct NIP-44 encrypted transport (kind 14) for more efficient and private messaging between peers. The release also strengthens security by binding v2 identity proofs to trade keys, preventing proof reuse across trades. As part of the protocol transition, dual-mode support was removed, meaning a node now operates exclusively in either Protocol v1 or Protocol v2, simplifying compatibility and reducing complexity. Contributed by: @negrunch Source: 2. Nostr VPN - v4.0.73 Nostr VPN is a decentralized mesh VPN built in a Tailscale-style architecture, using a FIPS-backed data plane to securely route traffic between peers without traditional centralized VPN infrastructure. This release focuses on maintainability and cross-platform stability, upgrading FIPS core components and refactoring large Rust modules into smaller submodules for better code management. It also improves dataplane reliability under load by incorporating upstream control-plane and packet-handling fixes while preserving session continuity, enhances Windows compatibility for shared dataplane worker state, and simplifies build requirements by removing the need for a sibling hashtree checkout thanks to pinned upstream dependencies. This was the latest and there was also the release of v4.0.72 last week. Contributed by: @Sirius Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 week ago
#12 image 1. Angor - 0.2.30 (Unstable Release) Angor is a decentralized peer-to-peer funding protocol (in alpha stage) built on Bitcoin and Nostr that enables users to create and manage crowdfunding-style projects without relying on centralized platforms. This unstable release focuses on improving usability and stability, especially in the mobile project creation flow with single-tap image uploads and better scroll behavior. It also changes the default network to mainnet for production readiness and fixes a Lightning invoice race condition that previously caused a stuck loading spinner, improving reliability in payment processing flows while explicitly remaining in an experimental/unstable phase. Contributed by: @dangershony, Zaza Source: #protocols_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 week ago
#1 image @fiatjaf β€œI think Nostr would be probably 200% better if we had someone to test apps reliably. I'm not talking about a "QA engineer" whatever, just someone that isn't a programmer but can install things, click buttons and report bugs. I have the impression that this is a role that died in the industry of software development, but it is much needed now, and much more in the age of AI code.” #quote_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 week ago
#3 image Nostr is growing fast! According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are now over 240 Nostr clients and over 500 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe. According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days): πŸ‘‰πŸ» Amethyst - 859 Users - 13.7k Notes πŸ‘‰πŸ» Primal Android - 689 Users - 7.7k Notes πŸ‘‰πŸ» Primal Web - 611 Users - 3.8k Notes Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists): πŸ‘‰πŸ» http://relay.momostr.pink/ - 300.2k Users πŸ‘‰πŸ» - 226.5k Users πŸ‘‰πŸ» http://relay.primal.net/ - 190.8k Users According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/, πŸ‘‰πŸ» Publishing Users last week: 10.10M (+196.1%) πŸ‘‰πŸ» New Publishing Users Last week: 12.13M (+32.2%) πŸ‘‰πŸ» All-time Zap Count: 6.85M πŸ‘‰πŸ» All-time Zap BTC Amount: 42.87 BTC πŸ‘‰πŸ» All-time Zap Senders: 177.8K According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: πŸ‘‰πŸ» Total Users: 4,571 users, compared to 9,126 users the week before image Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by @JeffG , by @Pip the WoT guy and all the contributors of for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 week ago
#5 image 1. Nostr London Meetup (2140) - June 2026 πŸ“… Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 9.00 PM BST πŸ“ Location: TBA πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: @2140.wtf NOSTR APP πŸ”— Event: https://www.meetup.com/nostr_london/events/308639465/ 2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - July 2026 πŸ“… Date: Sunday, July 05, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT πŸ“ Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: @fractalchris πŸ”— Event: #events_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 week ago
#9 image 1. Divine Mobile - 1.0.15 (Pre-release) Divine Mobile is a mobile social/video application built on Nostr, focused on creating, editing, and sharing short-form video content. In this pre-release, the update delivers a large set of improvements, including major video editor upgrades (timeline markers, hold-to-record, playback and audio fixes), improved feed stability and engagement tracking, enhanced DM features (multi-line composer and emoji reactions), notification and authentication reliability fixes, UI/design system refactors, and multiple performance, CI, and crash fixes across the app. Contributed by: @rabble, @Daniel Cadenas, @untreu, @Liz, Alex Frei, Meylis, Meylis, Source: 2. Vanilla HiveTalk - v0.0.5 Summer breeze Vanilla HiveTalk is a real-time communication tool (video conferencing / streaming app) built as a fork of MiroTalk SFU with added Nostr and Bitcoin Lightning integration. In v0.0.5 (β€œSummer breeze”), the release focuses heavily on security and stability improvements, including removal of vulnerable ngrok integration, fixes for multiple dependency-related security issues (such as serialize-javascript and uuid CVEs), major dependency upgrades, and CI/CD fixes, along with code changes like optional server tunneling, adjusted API defaults, branding updates, and removal of unsafe or deprecated services to improve overall system safety and reliability. Contributed by: @BITKARROT Source: 3. Amber - v6.2.0 Amber is a mobile signing app used to securely approve and sign Nostr events on Android. In v6.2.0, the release adds NIP-44 v3 encryption support with a new approval and preview flow, improves NIP-46 connection handling with auto-accept ping requests, enhances intent validation and history logging, introduces UI improvements like segmented option pickers, and removes legacy signing methods and older auto-approval options for a cleaner and more secure signing experience. Contributed by: @greenart7c3 Source: 4. Jumble - v26.6.1 Jumble is a Nostr client focused on exploring relay feeds and social interactions across the Nostr network. In v26.6.1, the release adds the ability to post from another account without switching active logins, introduces configurable Blossom cache server support, improves DM reliability and user experience, adds management for standalone emojis and emoji sets, and includes various translation updates and UI polish. Contributed by: @Cody Source: 5. Nostria - v3.1.45 Nostria is a social networking platform built on Nostr, focused on human connections and noise-free social interaction. This release improves profile loading for accounts with large follow lists, optimizes memory usage through local thumbnail generation in the native app, fixes Lightning and QR-code split payment issues, updates the codebase for compatibility with the latest Angular release, and officially drops the previously planned translucent UI redesign. This was the latest and there was also the release of v3.1.44 last week. Contributed by: @SondreB Source: 6. Primal Android App - 3.5.10 Primal Android App is a mobile Android client for the Nostr network focused on social interaction, content discovery, and Bitcoin-enabled experiences. In v3.5.10, the release delivers two stability fixes: improved NIP-05 verification support for domain-only identifiers and a fix for a wallet creation race condition that could occur during onboarding. Contributed by: Aleksandar Ilic Source: 7. Nymchat - v3.68.445 Nymchat is a messaging client built on the Nostr protocol for pseudonymous and temporary communication, with Bitchat bridging support. This release introduces Panic Mode for quickly encrypting data with throwaway keys and rapidly exiting the app, adds stronger identity encryption options using passwords, PINs, passkeys, and biometrics, fixes fullscreen video playback issues, and includes additional security hardening improvements. This was the biggest release, and there were a lot more releases last week. Contributed by: @Luxas Source: 8. Wisp - v1.1.1 Wisp is a mobile client for the Nostr social protocol, designed for browsing feeds, posting notes, and interacting with wallets and zaps. In v1.1.1, the release introduces improved post composition with countdown and preview behavior, expanded wallet features (Spark integration, Connect screen redesign, balance display modes, and NWC fixes), stronger security protections like nsec paste blocking, improved login and profile UX, enhanced theme and UI polish, zap message rendering improvements, and thread filtering via web-of-trust, along with various bug fixes and cross-platform parity improvements. Contributed by: @utxo the webmaster πŸ§‘β€πŸ’» Source: 9. Nostrord - v1.4.0 Nostrord is a chat client for the Nostr protocol (NIP-29 groups), focused on messaging, group communication, and multi-platform chat experience. In v1.4.0, the release improves feature parity between web and native apps by aligning composer, uploads, replies, and quoted-event cards, adds in-chat message search across platforms, introduces a native desktop file picker, fixes notification routing through service workers and browser history handling, and ensures group messages are correctly routed through each group’s relay instead of the primary relay. This was the latest release, and there was also another one (v1.3.0) last week. Contributed by: @Anjhc Source: 10. VaultChat - v1.2.0 VaultChat is a peer-to-peer encrypted messaging app built on the Nostr protocol, focused on private communication without phone numbers, email registration, or centralized servers. This release introduces Remote Panic Wipe functionality that allows users to remotely erase identities from the web using their private key, including support for wipes triggered while the app is closed and executed on next launch, adds a private-key visibility option in Settings for remote wipe usage, upgrades Panic Wipe commands to NIP-44 v2 encryption, and fixes relay handling, instant wipe triggering, and panic-command deduplication issues. Contributed by: blejusca Source: https://github.com/blejusca/VaultChat/releases/tag/1.2.0 #tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 week ago
#10 image 1. Grantless - New Developer Tool Grantless is a decentralized, community-funded grants platform for supporting open-source projects. Built on the Catallax protocol and powered by Nostr, it enables transparent crowdfunding, collaboration, and funding distribution without centralized control. Developed by: @vinney...axkl Source: 2. Mostro Core - v0.12.1 Mostro Core is a developer library (SDK/core infrastructure component) used to build decentralized applications and power the Mostro daemon. This release adds a new WaitingMakerBond order status, fixes ABI preservation for Wasm compatibility, and updates internal order-state handling while keeping the release focused on compatibility and stability improvements rather than user-facing features. Contributed by: @negrunch Source: 3. Nostrame - v1.1.1 Nostrame is a browser extension (NIP-07 signer tool) used to securely sign Nostr events from web applications without exposing private keys. It's a signing utility that enables web apps to interact with Nostr. In v1.1.1, the release mainly fixes compatibility issues with nostr-tools v2 and improves Brave extension context handling to ensure more stable signing behavior across Chromium-based browsers. There was another release of the month, which is v1.1.2 (latest). Contributed by: toxicafunk Source: 4. Nostr VPN - v4.0.70 Nostr VPN is a Tailscale-style private mesh VPN using a FIPS-backed data plane for secure peer-to-peer networking. In v4.0.70, the release updates FIPS components (fips-core 0.3.52 and fips-endpoint 0.3.28), improves performance testing and CI validation under heavy encryption and TCP load, strengthens throughput and latency checks with better queue-pressure simulation and recovery validation, and fixes a major issue where sustained bulk traffic could starve handshake and control packets, along with a macOS installer fix for resolving Cargo output paths correctly during binary swaps. This was the latest, and there were a lot more releases last week. Contributed by: @Sirius Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 week ago
#11 image 1. Grain - v0.7.1 GRAIN is primarily a powerful relay and infrastructure platform for relay operators, while also providing a Go client library for developers building Nostr applications. This release focuses entirely on stability and memory-leak fixes, resolving several long-running relay issues including leaked authentication state tied to closed connections, background goroutines persisting after config reloads, upstream relay disconnect leaks, and unbounded backup-relay forwarding processes. The update introduces proper cleanup, bounded forwarding behavior, and improved connection lifecycle management to keep long-running relays stable and memory usage flat under heavy or prolonged operation. Contributed by: @OceanSlim Source: #relays_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 week ago
#12 image 1. Angor - 0.2.29 (Unstable Release) Angor is a decentralized protocol (in alpha stage) built on Bitcoin and Nostr, used to enable peer-to-peer funding workflows rather than serving as a user-facing app or simple SDK. This Unstable Release adds early CLI and MCP server implementation planning, improves CLI tooling for testing workflows, introduces multi-user UAT funding test scenarios, fixes Lightning invoice network switching issues, improves wallet recovery and data-wipe behavior, and includes several stability fixes and UI/layout improvements while explicitly remaining in an experimental/unstable phase. Contributed by: @dangershony, TheDude, Zaza Source: #protocols_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 weeks ago
#1 image @jb55 β€œTheres enough stuff built here, starting to think the most valuable use of my time is to start promoting freedom tech on social media like instagram. Posting every day, viral hooks, etc. not sure what else will bring the masses here more effectively. Otherwise all this work is at risk of becoming a tech graveyard” #quote_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 weeks ago
#3 image Nostr is growing fast! According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are now over 240 Nostr clients and over 500 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe. According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days): πŸ‘‰πŸ» Amethyst - 809 Users - 13.1k Notes πŸ‘‰πŸ» Primal Android - 688 Users - 7.1k Notes πŸ‘‰πŸ» Primal Web - 559 Users - 3.7k Notes Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists): πŸ‘‰πŸ» http://relay.momostr.pink/ - 297.9k πŸ‘‰πŸ» - 223.3k πŸ‘‰πŸ» http://relay.primal.net/ - 187.0k According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/, πŸ‘‰πŸ» Publishing Users last week: 3.41M (+131.0%) πŸ‘‰πŸ» New Publishing Users Last week: 9.18M (+228.4%) πŸ‘‰πŸ» All-time Zap Count: 6.83M πŸ‘‰πŸ» All-time Zap BTC Amount: 42.80 BTC πŸ‘‰πŸ» All-time Zap Senders: 177.6K According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: πŸ‘‰πŸ» Total Users: 9,126, compared to 7,852 users the week before image Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by @JeffG , by @Pip the WoT guy and all the contributors of for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 weeks ago
#4 image 1. Evade Censorship with Nostr @Max 2. How to have UNCENSORABLE internet using NostrVPN #education_nostr_recap
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