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⚑ Your weekly dose of Nostr, delivered fresh every Monday! πŸš€ | Nostr Recap – Split Edition πŸ”₯ | Stay in the loop, stay ahead! 🌎 #NostrRecap
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nostrrecap 5 days ago
#1 🧠 Quote of the Week @miljan β€œNostr is your final destination on the internet. It’s not your backup.” #quote_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 5 days 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://npub.world/stats, During last week: πŸ‘‰ Total Users: 9,018, compared to 1,629 users the week before image According to https://stats.nostr.band, During last week: πŸ‘‰ Total Zaps: 35,236, compared to 29,803 zaps the week before image πŸ‘‰ Total Zap senders: 4,107, compared to 3,118 plebs the week before image πŸ‘‰ Total Zap Amount: 8,696,789, compared to 7,097,182 sats the week before image πŸ‘‰ Total Events: 3,849,431, compared to 3,704,444 events the week before image Many thanks to by @Pip the WoT guy and @franzap, https://stats.nostr.band by @npub1xdtd...ntxy, all the contributors of for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 5 days ago
#5 πŸ“… Upcoming Events 1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - January 2026 πŸ“… Date: Sunday, January 4, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MST πŸ“ Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: @fractalchris πŸ”— Event: 2. POSSE content with Drupal using Nostr at FOSDEM 2026 - January 2026 πŸ“… Date: Saturday, January 31, 2026 ⏰ Time: 5.35 PM - 6.00 PM CET (UTC+1) πŸ“ Location: Room: K.3.401 Track: Collaboration and Content Management UniversitΓ© libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solbosch Campus Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles / Brussels, Belgium πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: FOSDEM, @Sebastix πŸ”— Event: 3. Nostr Nights #1 - February 2026 πŸ“… Date: Monday, February 2, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 8.30 PM CST πŸ“ Location: 1910 21st Ave S Nashville, TN, USA πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: @Derek Ross, @Shawn, @OpenMike, @ajdav21, @Rod πŸ”— Event: #events_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 5 days ago
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nostrrecap 5 days ago
#9 πŸ› οΈ Tools, Updates and Releases 1. Zapstore - 1.0-rc1 Zapstore is a decentralized app marketplace powered by Nostr, letting users discover, install, and update apps through their social network. This release introduces a refreshed UI, a rewritten package manager for more reliable installs, curated app stacks, background update checks, improved security prompts, and better performance and stability, making app discovery and updates smoother, safer, and more user-friendly. Contributed by: @franzap Source: 2. Servus - v0.1.12 Servus is a minimalist, self-hosted social media server packaged as a single executable, making it easy to deploy and run without complex infrastructure. This release improves theme support by allowing theme customizations to be stored and reused, and enhances the site creation process with optional imports of Instagram and Twitter archives as well as automatic keypair generation, making setup faster, personalization easier, and onboarding more convenient for new users. Contributed by: @npub1lxpd...73vg Source: 3. Amber - v4.0.6 Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android, designed to securely handle key management and event signing for Nostr apps without exposing private keys. This version improves reliability and performance by adding signer-side caching, fixing multiple crashes (including permission screens, invalid Nostr Connect URIs, and decryption errors), improving UI recomposition, and making relay connections more robust by retrying failed connect events, resulting in a smoother, safer experience for end users and developers who rely on Amber as a secure signing backend for their Nostr applications. Contributed by: @greenart7c3 Source: 4. Aegis - v0.3.4 Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr event signer that allows users to securely create and manage Nostr events across multiple connection methods. In version 0.3.4, it adds support for the nip55 nostrsigner scheme, enables importing and exporting local relay data, fixes potential local relay socket errors, optimizes the application creation process, and refines the local relay user interface, improving reliability, usability, and overall user experience. Contributed by: @ZharlieW Source: 5. Keychat - v1.38.1+6489 Keychat is a secure chat app built on Bitcoin Ecash, Nostr, Signal, and MLS protocols, designed for private messaging across multiple platforms. In this version, it adds UnifiedPush support on Android and Linux for push notifications, introduces biometric authentication for privacy-sensitive operations, and refactors app directory initialization and reset logic, enhancing security, reliability, and user convenience. Contributed by: kcdev Source: 6. Monster - v0.0.8-monstr-alpha-android Monstr is a Svelte + Vite Nostr client with Android support via Capacitor, offering timeline feeds, posting, replies, reposts, Lightning zaps, Monero tipping, wallet management, and accessibility features. In this version, it fixes an initialization hang, tweaks the Composer modal, and ensures Nsec Android logins are persisted, improving stability and usability for end users. Contributed by: boshi-chan Source: 7. Nostur - v1.25 Nostur is a Nostr client for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, designed for end users to access feeds, DMs, bookmarks, and media across multiple accounts. Version 1.25 introduces a new desktop multi-column mode (via Nostur Pro) with customizable columns, enhanced private DM and group chat support, dedicated voice message and short video feeds, improved audio compatibility, Relay Autopilot toggle for custom feeds, and better handling of quoted posts, alongside numerous bug fixes and performance improvements, making the app more versatile and user-friendly. Contributed by: @npub1n0st...lahe Source: #tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 5 days ago
#10 🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases 1. nostr-java - v1.1.1 nostr-java is a Java SDK that helps developers create, sign, and publish Nostr events to relays from Java applications. This release focuses on refactoring WebSocket handling and improving integration tests, resulting in more reliable relay connections, better test stability, and a stronger foundation for developers building Nostr-based apps in Java. Contributed by: @398ja Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 week ago
#1 🧠 Quote of the Week @fiatjaf β€œInstead of β€˜protocol’ we should call Nostr a β€˜system’.” #quote_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 week 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 950 relays online in around 50 countries at the moment. According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: - Total Users: 1,629, compared to 1,690 users the week before image According to https://stats.nostr.band, During last week: - Total Zaps: 29,803, compared to 33,052 zaps the week before image - Total Zap senders: 3,118, compared to 2,589 plebs the week before image - Total Zap Amount: 7,097,192, compared to 7,961,647 sats the week before image - Total Events: 3,702,272, compared to 3,536,158 events the week before image Many thanks to by @Pip the WoT guy and @franzap, https://stats.nostr.band by @npub1xdtd...ntxy, all the contributors of and https://nostr.watch for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 week ago
#5 πŸ“… Upcoming Events 1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - January 2026 πŸ“… Date: Sunday, January 4, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MST πŸ“ Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: Chris Curran πŸ”— Event: 2. POSSE content with Drupal using Nostr at FOSDEM 2026 - January 2026 πŸ“… Date: Saturday, January 31, 2026 ⏰ Time: 5.35 PM - 6.00 PM CET (UTC+1) πŸ“ Location: Room: K.3.401 Track: Collaboration and Content Management UniversitΓ© libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solbosch Campus Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles / Brussels, Belgium πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: FOSDEM, @Sebastix πŸ”— Event: 3. Nostr Nights #1 - February 2026 πŸ“… Date: Monday, February 2, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 8.30 PM CST πŸ“ Location: 1910 21st Ave S 1910 21st Ave S, Nashville, TN, USA πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: @Derek Ross, @Shawn, @OpenMike, @ajdav21, @Rod πŸ”— Event: #events_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 week ago
#6 πŸ“° Nostr in the Media 1. Soapbox Sessions Episode 16: Dumbin’ Down the Tech @Ditto by Soapbox, @MAKE SONGS LONGER 2. Hivetalk Vibe Coding Session Replay: December 16, 2025 3. Exploring the Pyramid Relay for Nostr 4. Deep Dive: Nostr as Freedom Tech, Purple Pilling, Government Role & Bitcoin Politics @Robin Seyr #media_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 week ago
#9 πŸ› οΈ Tools, Updates and Releases 1. Snort - v0.4.0 Snort is a high-performance Nostr client built with React, focused on fast content discovery, media handling, and social interactions. This update adds a Discover page for trending content, a media tab for multiple media note types, and a Follow Sets page for browsing connections. It integrates Nests audio rooms, replaces NIP-96 with Blossom storage, and upgrades the build system to Bun. Other improvements include better profile caching, query handling, auto-translation, and WoT filtering, making content loading faster, media management smoother, and social interactions more seamless. Developed by: @Kieran, @sandwich Source: 2. Amber - v4.0.6-pre2 Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that securely manages and signs Nostr events. In this release it improves stability and performance by fixing crashes on permission and app editing screens, handling decryption parsing errors gracefully, adding a signer cache for faster operations, and optimizing screen recomposition and task finishing, enhancing reliability and responsiveness for end users. This was the latest and there was also the releases of v4.0.6-pre1 and v4.0.5 last week. Developed by: @greenart7c3 Source: 3. Nostria (Android) - v1.0.8 Nostria is a decentralized social networking app that lets users fully control their profiles and data while exploring a censorship-resistant network. In this release, it fixes the β€œShare to Nostria” feature, enabling users to seamlessly share photos and videos directly from their devices, improving usability and content sharing for end users. This was the latest release and there was also the release of v1.0.7 last week. Developed by: @SondreB Source: 4. 0xchat App - v1.5.2 0xchat is a secure chat app built on the Nostr protocol. In this release it introduces major usability improvements such as an updated image picker, Markdown support in posts, GIF uploads, custom emojis, and global posts with relay-based filtering. It also integrates new Napps (Mutable, Grimoire, Nym, Nostube) and Filedrop file server support, while fixing bugs related to contact sorting, account switching, login splash screens, and language translation, enhancing both functionality and user experience. Developed by: @water783 Source: 5. Plebs App - v2.7.12 Plebs is a censorship-resistant, decentralized video platform built on the Nostr protocol. This release features a complete redesign and refactor, adding a following list, watched history, live and shorts videos, draft-saving before publishing, content filter packs, multiple language support, profile editing, zaps in comments, mute and reporting features, and a real watched count for videos. It also introduces an analytics dashboard and fixes light/dark mode issues and page-loading bugs, significantly improving usability, content management, and user experience. This was the biggest release of the week and there was also some more releases last week. (v2.7.31, v2.7.30, v2.7.28, v2.7.27, v2.7.26, v2.7.25, v2.7.24, v2.7.23, v2.7.22, v2.7.21, v2.7.20, v2.7.18, v2.7.15, v2.7.14, v2.7.13) Developed by: @Luxas Source: 6. Vector - v0.2.3 Vector is a decentralized communication platform on the Nostr Protocol, offering end-to-end encryption, zero metadata leakage, and plausible deniability. This release adds Web Profiles, redesigned voice messaging, file previews, image compression, window persistence, and a polished UI with animated headers and mini-avatars. On-demand decryption improves performance, while bug fixes address startup flash, logout issues, unread markers, download stability, and emoji search, giving users a smoother, faster, and more reliable chat experience. Developed by: @JSKitty Source: #tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 1 week ago
#10 🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases 1. Mostro Core - v0.6.57 Mostro Core is a Rust-based library providing peer-to-peer functionality for decentralized applications, forming the foundation for the Mostro daemon. This update reverts previous protocol changes, adds optional user info fields to the Order payload, and introduces three new fields in the Order struct. It also updates crypto dependencies, fixes Clippy issues with older dependencies, and updates the Rust toolchain to 1.90.0. These changes improve compatibility, enable richer order data, and ensure the library is more stable and easier to maintain for developers building decentralized applications. Developed by: @Pinball Wizard, @negrunch Source: 2. Gitplaza - v0.26.0 Gitplaza is a desktop Nostr client focused on managing Git-related activity. This release adds support for rendering patch diffs and revisions, displays Markdown in patch views and comments, includes patches in activity and inbox filters, differentiates patch revisions from root patches, and shows e-tag or a-tag Git references in the event view. Performance improvements reduce unnecessary Git status queries, and bug fixes ensure comments and self-referencing tags are properly handled, making code review, collaboration, and tracking more efficient for users. Developed by: @dluvian Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 weeks ago
#1 🧠 Quotes of the Week @Gigi β€œnostr is now more important than ever. True pseudonymity is possible here. It isn't on X, or any other centralized platform.” @Ben Justman🍷 β€œI get way more engagement on Nostr than Twitter with the same content since the algo change. Feels like I got rugged there and rescued here.” #quote_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 weeks ago
#2 πŸ”₯ Community Highlights 1. Surely this meeting will get many benefits to the Nostr world πŸ”₯ View quoted note β†’ 2. These suggestions are great for a Nostr project 😍 View quoted note β†’ 3. This is well said by Gigi πŸ’― View quoted note β†’ 4. An amazing solution for the Nostr login system πŸ‘Œ- View article β†’ 5. It includes Nostr login too 😍 View quoted note β†’ 6. A Nostr legend is celebrating his birthday πŸŽ‚ View quoted note β†’ 7. Beware of these kind of scams on Nostr ⚠️ View quoted note β†’ 8. Nostr is the best social media protocol ✌️ View quoted note β†’ 9. This pleb loves Nostr a lot 🫢 View quoted note β†’ 10. Let’s help him to find a job 🚨 View quoted note β†’ 11. Let’s enjoy an impressive Nostr song 🎧 View quoted note β†’ 12. Nostr is the solution for most of the things πŸ‘‡ View quoted note β†’ 13. Primal member proposes his thoughts to Jack πŸ‘‡ View quoted note β†’ 14. This is a great work πŸ‘ View quoted note β†’ 15. Don’t let the social media corps to own your data. The freedom is here πŸ‘ˆ View quoted note β†’ 16. Nostr is always better than X πŸ˜‰ View quoted note β†’ #community_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 weeks 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 950 relays online in around 50 countries at the moment. According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: - Total Users: 1690, compared to 4,161 users the week before image According to https://stats.nostr.band, During last week: - Total Zaps: 33,021, compared to 38,187 zaps the week before image - Total Zap senders: 2,586, compared to 2,554 plebs the week before image - Total Zap Amount: 7,958,264, compared to 9,084,120 sats the week before image - Total Events: 3,533,128, compared to 2,783,435 events the week before image Many thanks to by @Pip the WoT guy and @franzap, https://stats.nostr.band by @npub1xdtd...ntxy, all the contributors of and https://nostr.watch for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 weeks ago
#5 πŸ“… Upcoming Events 1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - January 2026 πŸ“… Date: Sunday, January 4, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MST πŸ“ Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: Chris Curran πŸ”— Event: 2. POSSE content with Drupal using Nostr at FOSDEM 2026 - January 2026 πŸ“… Date: Saturday, January 31, 2026 ⏰ Time: 5.35 PM - 6.00 PM CET (UTC+1) πŸ“ Location: Room: K.3.401 Track: Collaboration and Content Management UniversitΓ© libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solbosch Campus Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles / Brussels, Belgium πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: FOSDEM, @Sebastix πŸ”— Event: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/fosdem-2026-7403-posse-content-with-drupal-using-nostr 3. Nostr Nights #1 - February 2026 πŸ“… Date: Monday, February 2, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 8.30 PM CST πŸ“ Location: 1910 21st Ave S 1910 21st Ave S, Nashville, TN, USA πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: @Derek Ross, @Shawn, @OpenMike, @ajdav21, @Rod πŸ”— Event: #events_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 weeks ago
#6 πŸ“° Nostr in the Media 1. Let’s explore the Nostr alternatives for the big tech apps @Jurjen de Vries 2. A Myth About Nostr KILLED in 40 Seconds @Derek Ross 3. Nostr talk in Curacao - Bitcoin Villa 2025 @Nathan Day 4. You’ll never use your phone the same after this @paul keating 5. Soapbox Sessions Episode 15: Mo Users, Mo Problems & Nostr E-Commerce @MAKE SONGS LONGER 6. Nostr: A Decentralized Identity Protocol #media_nostr_recap
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nostrrecap 2 weeks ago
#7 ⚑ Most Zapped Last Week Nostr’s Value4Value (V4V) model is all about plebs directly rewarding creators for the value they receive, no middlemen fees, no ads, just pure community-driven support using sats via the Bitcoin Lightning Network. Thanks to by @PABLOF7z for providing this data. Here are the Top Zapped/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing creators who received/sent the most engagement: πŸ”₯ Top 4: Most Zapped 1. Name: @Rizful.com (zap tester) Zaps Received: 1018 Sats Earned: 1k 2. Name: @FLASH Zaps Received: 808 Sats Earned: 65k 3. Name: @Fountain Boost Bot Zaps Received: 393 Sats Earned: 795k 4. Name: @Gigi Zaps Received: 390 Sats Earned: 58k πŸ”₯ Top 4: Most Zappers 1. Name: @AQSTR Zaps Sent: 756 Sats Spent: 55k 2. Name: @Benking Zaps Sent: 306 Sats Spent: 984 3. Name: @shredder Zaps Sent: 254 Sats Spent: 7k 4. Name: @npub179rx...sp65 Zaps Sent: 158 Sats Spent: 790 πŸ’° Top 4: Most Sats Received 1. Name: @Rabbit Hole Recap Sats Earned: 1M Zaps Received: 63 2. Name: @Fountain Boost Bot Sats Earned: 838k Zaps Received: 398 3. Name: @The Bullish β‚Ώitcoiner Sats Earned: 284k Zaps Received: 123 4. Name: @BitBetBot Sats Earned: 162k Zaps Received: 54 πŸ’° Top 4: Most Sats Sent 1. Name: @Bryan Sats Spent: 640k Zaps Sent: 5 2. Name: @BitBetBot Sats Spent: 134k Zaps Sent: 44 3. Name: @Rizful.com Sats Spent: 127k Zaps Sent: 53 4. Name: @PringleMac Sats Spent: 111k Zaps Sent: 14 #most-zapped_nostr_recap
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