NomishkaDilshan on Nostr: I made my eighth edition of "The Latest on the Nostr! - A weekly nostr recap" ...
I made my eighth edition of "The Latest on the Nostr! - A weekly nostr recap" (January 27th, 2025) highlights notable news, releases, community milestones, upcoming events, and more from across the Nostr ecosystem. I am aiming to bring you a concise but comprehensive overview, so you can stay in the loop without chasing every thread. Below, you’ll find mentions of the incredible contributors and creators whose work, insights, and enthusiasm powered this decentralized network last week. Dive in, discover what’s new, and consider zapping these plebs to show your support. Let’s #growNostr together! 🗞️🚀 #nostrrecap
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🗞️ The Latest the Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap - 27 January 2025 🚀
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🧠 Quote of the Week
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“Decentralization is the only solution to tyranny.”
For more details, please check the Most zaps or Most sats section (#1 item)
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🔥 Community Highlights
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1. geyser (npub1kmw…xqk9) community support: Bringing nostr to FOSDEM (npub1zmg…dsuu) 2025
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2. Gratitude for 30000 followers from isolabell.art (npub17nd…950x)
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🌱 Ecosystem Growth
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Nostr is growing fast! There are now over 45 Nostr clients, and relays are running in more than 40 countries around the globe.
According to https://nostrapps.com there are overall 75 Nostr apps for now.
During this week:
Total zaps: 68,468, compared to 49,216 zaps the week before
Total events: 5,767,121, compared to 4,983,788 events the week before
Many thanks to https://stats.nostr.band/ by brugeman (npub1xdt…ntxy) for providing these insights.
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🎓 Educational Guide
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No updates this week. If you have some input for the next recap about recent nostr educational resources, please share it and I will add it in the next recap.
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📅 Upcoming Events
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1. FOSDEM 2025
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📅 Date: Saturday, Sunday, February 1–2, 2025 - CET
📍 Location: Brussels, Belgium
🤹♀️ Organizers: sebastix (npub1qe3…zefe), jurjendevries (npub1l77…swft), Tanja (npub1hz5…tysa) , Cypher (npub1nkm…49fn), laoc42 (npub1r30…t9ma)
🔗 https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/
FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of open-source developers and enthusiasts in the world, which happens every year in Brussels. It's a free, community-organized event where thousands of developers, innovators, and Free and Open Source Software contributors come together to demo projects, host talks, and share ideas. It's a key place for making meaningful connections, learning from each other, and pushing open-source tech forward.
For NOSTR, it makes perfect sense to be at FOSDEM. It is the perfect podium to introduce the greater FOSS world that Nostr provides a potential to really replace centralized social platforms, actually give back to users true ownership of data, and foster a much more resilient and open internet. The interactions at FOSDEM with other free and open-source projects and respective developers help Nostr grow its ecosystem, foster new collaborations, and gain much-valued feedback. It's all about grassroots development, community contributions, and evolving without the constraints of centralized platforms; in other words, just about perfect for FOSDEM's collaborative spirit.
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2. Nostrich Meetup in Konstanz, Germany
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📅 Date: Saturday, March 15th, 2025
📍 Location: Konstanz, near Lake Constance (Bodensee), Germany
🤹♀️ Organizers: Purple Konnektiv (npub1pur…zkzp)
🔗 Event:
Join with Purple Konnektiv (npub1pur…zkzp) for the next Nostrich meetup in Konstanz! They are renting a room for the day to foster conversation, with snacks, drinks, and plenty of opportunities to connect.
Interested in attending? Reach out, and they'll create a Simplex group for details. If you'd like to organize a talk or workshop, let them know! They’re excited to bring the community together!
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3. FediForum April 2025
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📅 Date: April 1-2, 2025, 8:30 PM IST to 1:30 AM IST
📍 Location: Online Event
🔗 https://events.humanitix.com/fediforum-april-2025?hxchl=hex-pfl
Join FediForum (npub1h92…jhr8) to discuss the future of social media, including Fediverse, Bluesky, Nostr, and Mastodon. New technologies, funding models, and ways of governance with a focus on an open, trust-driven, and interoperable social web. Connect with your peers and help build the next generation of social media.
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4. Nostr.World Community Event
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📅 Date: Q4 2025
📍 Location: Argentina
🤹♀️ Organizers: thenostrworld (npub1nst…rg5l)
🔗 Event:
A community-driven event is in the making; early planning is going on to bring the Nostr fam together in Argentina to celebrate community and collaborate on the future of Nostr. This is an exciting event because your input is shaping it. Share your thoughts on how to make it even better. More details to come.
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📰 Nostr in the Media
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1. Max ⬡ (npub1cz8…06v6) discusses about nostr with @cryptokong
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Max says that Nostr is not like traditional platforms; Nostr doesn't rely on centralized servers but instead works through relays to keep the protocol going. Users create profiles with a generated key pair, so their privacy and security are ensured without traditional signups. It's a bit like Twitter in that posts, videos, and images can be reposted, and it also natively incorporates Bitcoin's Lightning Network for seamless micropayments. Among the clients like a open source android nostr client (npub1nz6…0w5y). Nostr has picked up in traction lately, particularly with the Bitcoin community, promising an unstoppable open alternative to online communications.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9nktORBgrc
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⚡ Most Zapped Last Week
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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 https://zaplife.lol by PABLOF7z (npub1l2v…ajft) for providing this data. Here are the top zapped posts from last week, showcasing creators who received the most engagement:
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1. Zaps Received: 621
Sats Earned: 748k
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2. Zaps Received: 261
Sats Earned: 62k
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3. Zaps Received: 142
Sats Earned: 43k
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1. Sats Earned: 748k
Zaps Received: 621
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2. Sats Earned: 62k
Zaps Received: 261
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3. Sats Earned: 43k
Zaps Received: 142
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🛠️ Tools, Updates, and Releases
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1. Nostrmo - 2.9.5
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Nostrmo is a Flutter-based Nostr client for Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Web, and Linux. This release adds PC tray and notification support, Linux package compatibility (AppImage, DEB, RPM), recoded group pages, configurable client tags, note tail support, and direct navigation to jumble.social, along with various bug fixes.
Developed by: DASHU (npub19ye…zqwk)
Source: https://github.com/haorendashu/nostrmo/releases/tag/2.9.5
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Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android, providing secure event signing for the Nostr network. This release adds missing logs for relay errors and updates the button text and icons for listening to new connections. This release enhances the user experience and troubleshooting capabilities for secure event signing on Android.
Developed by: greenart7c3 (npub1w4u…0jr5)
Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v3.1.9
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BTCPay Server is a free, open-source Bitcoin payment processor for fee-free, intermediary-free transactions. This release brings a critical security fix for on-chain refunds and pull payments besides features like customizable HTML meta tags and manual payout transitions. It also fixes all of the migration issues and UI bugs, improves the display of Lightning Balance, among other fixes. Merchants are recommended to update to this release as soon as possible to enjoy better security and functionality.
Created by: d11n (npub14j7…gtpf)
NicolasDorier (npub1zfy…m60l)
Nisaba (npub1e5w…xp6q)
HipPreacher (npub1x70…u76e)
Source: https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/releases/tag/v2.0.6
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🎁 Developer Tools, updates and Guides
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1. Servus - v0.1.8
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Servus is a minimalistic all-in-one social media server that acts as a CMS, personal Nostr relay with support for both Blossom and NIP-96, and file server. This release is statically linked for ease of deployment, making it more user-friendly by managing content more effectively, securely hosting a relay, and effortlessly sharing files.
Developed by: npub1xvdg698f7fqdu2qu5azwa6fu8xhw8p0zpp272qe7qex7kpn5ks5su3am9l (npub1xvd…am9l)
Source: https://github.com/servus-social/servus/releases/tag/v0.1.8
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Notemine is a Rust-based tool for mining Nostr notes, designed to target the web and compile to WebAssembly (WASM). This prerelease includes a fix for package.json and updated dependencies, improving its functionality and compatibility for developers working with web-based Nostr integrations. This is the latest prerelease, and there was the prerelease core@v0.4.3 too this week.
Developed by: @dskvr
Source: https://github.com/sandwichfarm/notemine/releases/tag/wrapper%40v0.1.3
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Nostr-spring-boot-starter is a Spring Boot starter projects for building Nostr applications. This release includes breaking changes like method renames and removals in MoreEvents, MoreIdentities, and Nip40, new methods added in Nip40: findExpiration and expire, nostr-proto modules externalized, and Gradle upgraded to v8.12.
Developed by: @theborakompanioni
Source: https://github.com/theborakompanioni/nostr-spring-boot-starter/releases/tag/0.2.0
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Dart Nostr Development Kit is a Nostr Development Kit for Dart applications. This release introduces support for Blossom and updated documentation. This release improves resources for developers working with Nostr in the Dart environment.
Developed by: @leolox
Source: https://github.com/relaystr/ndk/releases/tag/v0.2.6
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Bostr 2 is a Nostr bouncer relay aggregator proxy implemented in Go. This release adds a client IP forwarder and fixes some user agent changer issues to make the agent more functional and robust for efficient relay management.
Developed by: Yonle (npub1x3a…g4el)
Source: https://github.com/Yonle/bostr2/releases/tag/v1.1.1
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Citrine is an Android-based Nostr relay that makes it really easy to transmit as well as receive events from Nostr clients on Android. This version brings back the "restore follows" button, database backup notifications, and more importantly, it allows listening to pokey broadcasts. The following updates make life easier and more reliable for Nostr clients depending on Citrine.
Developed by: greenart7c3 (npub1w4u…0jr5)
Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine/releases/tag/v0.7.1
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👋 Stay in Touch & Zap
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Nostr is built by the plebs, for the plebs. If you found this recap helpful, consider supporting me—Nomishka—with a zap. Right now, I’m in a tough spot: jobless and struggling to make ends meet. Most days, I’m barely able to afford food, and honestly, 210,000 sats per month would help provide a basic income to cover essential needs.
I’m committed to supporting Nostr, and I split a part of the zaps I receive for this note with the plebs mentioned in this recap for all their great effort. Thank you so much for being part of this journey. Let me know your thoughts about this Eighth recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #nostrrecap, and let’s keep #grownostr together.
Recap by NomishkaDilshan (npub19hs…5jcn)
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🗞️ The Latest the Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap - 27 January 2025 🚀
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🧠 Quote of the Week
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“Decentralization is the only solution to tyranny.”
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🔥 Community Highlights
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1. geyser (npub1kmw…xqk9) community support: Bringing nostr to FOSDEM (npub1zmg…dsuu) 2025
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quoting nevent1q…mlw8Thank you for the featured highlight geyser (npub1kmw…xqk9) ! 🙏
We already achieved our goal of raising 0.025 btc, but please feel free to donate as the remaining sats will donated to #FOSDEM.
https://geyser.fund/project/nostrfosdem2025
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2. Gratitude for 30000 followers from isolabell.art (npub17nd…950x)
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quoting nevent1q…hamp
📣 To celebrate the milestone of 30,000 followers on Nostr, all my paintings purchased in the next 24 hours will be sent with FREE SHIPPING worldwide! 🤩
If you love my art, don't miss this opportunity! ♥️🫂🎨
Click below and choose your favorite 👇
https://isolabell.art/#shop
#art #artshop
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🌱 Ecosystem Growth
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Nostr is growing fast! There are now over 45 Nostr clients, and relays are running in more than 40 countries around the globe.
According to https://nostrapps.com there are overall 75 Nostr apps for now.
During this week:
Total zaps: 68,468, compared to 49,216 zaps the week before
Total events: 5,767,121, compared to 4,983,788 events the week before
Many thanks to https://stats.nostr.band/ by brugeman (npub1xdt…ntxy) for providing these insights.
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🎓 Educational Guide
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No updates this week. If you have some input for the next recap about recent nostr educational resources, please share it and I will add it in the next recap.
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📅 Upcoming Events
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1. FOSDEM 2025
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📅 Date: Saturday, Sunday, February 1–2, 2025 - CET
📍 Location: Brussels, Belgium
🤹♀️ Organizers: sebastix (npub1qe3…zefe), jurjendevries (npub1l77…swft), Tanja (npub1hz5…tysa) , Cypher (npub1nkm…49fn), laoc42 (npub1r30…t9ma)
🔗 https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/
FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of open-source developers and enthusiasts in the world, which happens every year in Brussels. It's a free, community-organized event where thousands of developers, innovators, and Free and Open Source Software contributors come together to demo projects, host talks, and share ideas. It's a key place for making meaningful connections, learning from each other, and pushing open-source tech forward.
For NOSTR, it makes perfect sense to be at FOSDEM. It is the perfect podium to introduce the greater FOSS world that Nostr provides a potential to really replace centralized social platforms, actually give back to users true ownership of data, and foster a much more resilient and open internet. The interactions at FOSDEM with other free and open-source projects and respective developers help Nostr grow its ecosystem, foster new collaborations, and gain much-valued feedback. It's all about grassroots development, community contributions, and evolving without the constraints of centralized platforms; in other words, just about perfect for FOSDEM's collaborative spirit.
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📅 Date: Saturday, March 15th, 2025
📍 Location: Konstanz, near Lake Constance (Bodensee), Germany
🤹♀️ Organizers: Purple Konnektiv (npub1pur…zkzp)
🔗 Event:
quoting nevent1q…7jprGood morning, Nostr! ☀️
[EN]
We’re excited to announce that our next meetup will take place in 📍Konstanz, near Lake Constance (Bodensee)!
If you’re free on 🗓️ Saturday, March 15th, join our Nostrich meetup and experience some real-life Nostr magic! 💜
What’s the plan this time? 👀
Instead of renting a location for everyone to sleep and cook together, we’ll rent a room for the whole day, creating a space for conversations to naturally flow. Snacks, drinks, and endless opportunities to connect with wonderful Nostriches await you. 🫂💫
Feel free to reach out if you’re interested in joining! We’ll open a Simplex group for participants to share further details. 🎉
If you’d like to organize a talk, workshop, or help with the planning, let us know! 👨🏫👩🏫
And of course if you have any questions, just comment under this note. 💜 We’re super excited and happy to create a space for you! 🥳🫶
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Guten Morgen, Nostr!
Wir freuen uns riesig, euch anzukündigen, dass unser nächstes Meetup in 📍Konstanz am Bodensee, stattfinden wird!
Wenn ihr am 🗓️ Samstag, den 15. März, Zeit habt, kommt gerne zu unserem kleinen Nostrich-Meetup und erlebt ein bisschen real life Nostr-Magie! 💜
Was ist diesmal geplant? 👀
Anstatt einen Ort zu mieten, an dem wir übernachten und gemeinsam kochen, werden wir diesmal einen Raum für den ganzen Tag buchen. Diesen wollen wir für spannende und inspirierende Gespräche nutzen. Es wird Snacks, Getränke und viele Gelegenheiten geben, um sich mit tollen Nostriches auszutauschen. 🫂💫
Schreibt uns gerne, wenn ihr dabei sein möchtet! Wir werden eine Simplex-Gruppe für die Teilnehmer einrichten, um weitere Infos zu teilen. 🎉
Falls ihr Lust habt, einen Vortrag oder Workshop zu organisieren oder bei der Planung zu helfen, lasst es uns wissen! 👨🏫👩🏫
Und wenn ihr Fragen habt, schreibt gerne unter diese Note. 💜 Wir sind super excited und freuen uns riesig, euch einen Raum zu geben! 🥳🫶
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#meetup #nostrmeetup #DACH
Join with Purple Konnektiv (npub1pur…zkzp) for the next Nostrich meetup in Konstanz! They are renting a room for the day to foster conversation, with snacks, drinks, and plenty of opportunities to connect.
Interested in attending? Reach out, and they'll create a Simplex group for details. If you'd like to organize a talk or workshop, let them know! They’re excited to bring the community together!
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📅 Date: April 1-2, 2025, 8:30 PM IST to 1:30 AM IST
📍 Location: Online Event
🔗 https://events.humanitix.com/fediforum-april-2025?hxchl=hex-pfl
Join FediForum (npub1h92…jhr8) to discuss the future of social media, including Fediverse, Bluesky, Nostr, and Mastodon. New technologies, funding models, and ways of governance with a focus on an open, trust-driven, and interoperable social web. Connect with your peers and help build the next generation of social media.
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📅 Date: Q4 2025
📍 Location: Argentina
🤹♀️ Organizers: thenostrworld (npub1nst…rg5l)
🔗 Event:
quoting nevent1q…52xq✨ GM/GA/GN Nostriches! ✨
We're blown away by all the amazing responses to our last Nostr.world poll! 💜 Your enthusiasm and feedback have been incredible - seeing all the Nostr fam coming together makes this even more exciting.
While we were initially exploring earlier dates, we've heard you about needing more time to coordinate. Because we want as many Nostriches as possible to join us (#keepnostrweird), we're working on a new timeline that could work better for everyone.
So, for now:
📅 Dates: Q4 2025
📍 Location: Argentina
Additional Info:
- This will be a community-driven event
- We're in the early planning stages
- Your input helps shape everything
- More details to follow
Drop a comment below if you have any thoughts or suggestions! Let's keep building this together 🫂
#asknostr #growNostr #nostrCommunity #plebchain
A community-driven event is in the making; early planning is going on to bring the Nostr fam together in Argentina to celebrate community and collaborate on the future of Nostr. This is an exciting event because your input is shaping it. Share your thoughts on how to make it even better. More details to come.
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1. Max ⬡ (npub1cz8…06v6) discusses about nostr with @cryptokong
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Max says that Nostr is not like traditional platforms; Nostr doesn't rely on centralized servers but instead works through relays to keep the protocol going. Users create profiles with a generated key pair, so their privacy and security are ensured without traditional signups. It's a bit like Twitter in that posts, videos, and images can be reposted, and it also natively incorporates Bitcoin's Lightning Network for seamless micropayments. Among the clients like a open source android nostr client (npub1nz6…0w5y). Nostr has picked up in traction lately, particularly with the Bitcoin community, promising an unstoppable open alternative to online communications.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9nktORBgrc
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⚡ Most Zapped Last Week
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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 https://zaplife.lol by PABLOF7z (npub1l2v…ajft) for providing this data. Here are the top zapped posts from last week, showcasing creators who received the most engagement:
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🔥 Top 3: Most Zaps
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1. Zaps Received: 621
Sats Earned: 748k
quoting nevent1q…msx7Decentralization is the only solution to tyranny.
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2. Zaps Received: 261
Sats Earned: 62k
quoting nevent1q…f0w3My name is Olawale Moses, a Nigeria artist.
Here is my pencil drawing titled Light Play Portrait iii.
Let me know what you think!
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3. Zaps Received: 142
Sats Earned: 43k
quoting nevent1q…4m6kMy first large format drawing is finally finished!
350 hours of work
31 pencil leads
12 pencils
1 drawing paper
"The Rise of #Bitcoin" was just a thought, an idea in my head over 4 months ago.
Even more fulfilling to now be able to witness this idea with my own eyes and to creatively combine my drawing style and love to detail with some of the most formative events in the 16 years since Bitcoin came into existence.
This will not be the last project on this scale!
If you are interested in a print of this drawing, available in different sizes and qualities, you can find them at bitcoinapexart.com/shop.
Thanks to everyone who enjoyed the updates on this drawing. Your feedback was truly something else.
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💰 Top 3: Most Sats
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1. Sats Earned: 748k
Zaps Received: 621
quoting nevent1q…msx7Decentralization is the only solution to tyranny.
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2. Sats Earned: 62k
Zaps Received: 261
quoting nevent1q…6f74My name is Olawale Moses, a Nigeria artist.
Here is my pencil drawing titled Light Play Portrait iii.
Let me know what you think!
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3. Sats Earned: 43k
Zaps Received: 142
quoting nevent1q…4m6kMy first large format drawing is finally finished!
350 hours of work
31 pencil leads
12 pencils
1 drawing paper
"The Rise of #Bitcoin" was just a thought, an idea in my head over 4 months ago.
Even more fulfilling to now be able to witness this idea with my own eyes and to creatively combine my drawing style and love to detail with some of the most formative events in the 16 years since Bitcoin came into existence.
This will not be the last project on this scale!
If you are interested in a print of this drawing, available in different sizes and qualities, you can find them at bitcoinapexart.com/shop.
Thanks to everyone who enjoyed the updates on this drawing. Your feedback was truly something else.
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🛠️ Tools, Updates, and Releases
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1. Nostrmo - 2.9.5
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Nostrmo is a Flutter-based Nostr client for Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Web, and Linux. This release adds PC tray and notification support, Linux package compatibility (AppImage, DEB, RPM), recoded group pages, configurable client tags, note tail support, and direct navigation to jumble.social, along with various bug fixes.
Developed by: DASHU (npub19ye…zqwk)
Source: https://github.com/haorendashu/nostrmo/releases/tag/2.9.5
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Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android, providing secure event signing for the Nostr network. This release adds missing logs for relay errors and updates the button text and icons for listening to new connections. This release enhances the user experience and troubleshooting capabilities for secure event signing on Android.
Developed by: greenart7c3 (npub1w4u…0jr5)
Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v3.1.9
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BTCPay Server is a free, open-source Bitcoin payment processor for fee-free, intermediary-free transactions. This release brings a critical security fix for on-chain refunds and pull payments besides features like customizable HTML meta tags and manual payout transitions. It also fixes all of the migration issues and UI bugs, improves the display of Lightning Balance, among other fixes. Merchants are recommended to update to this release as soon as possible to enjoy better security and functionality.
Created by: d11n (npub14j7…gtpf)
NicolasDorier (npub1zfy…m60l)
Nisaba (npub1e5w…xp6q)
HipPreacher (npub1x70…u76e)
Source: https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/releases/tag/v2.0.6
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🎁 Developer Tools, updates and Guides
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Servus is a minimalistic all-in-one social media server that acts as a CMS, personal Nostr relay with support for both Blossom and NIP-96, and file server. This release is statically linked for ease of deployment, making it more user-friendly by managing content more effectively, securely hosting a relay, and effortlessly sharing files.
Developed by: npub1xvdg698f7fqdu2qu5azwa6fu8xhw8p0zpp272qe7qex7kpn5ks5su3am9l (npub1xvd…am9l)
Source: https://github.com/servus-social/servus/releases/tag/v0.1.8
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Notemine is a Rust-based tool for mining Nostr notes, designed to target the web and compile to WebAssembly (WASM). This prerelease includes a fix for package.json and updated dependencies, improving its functionality and compatibility for developers working with web-based Nostr integrations. This is the latest prerelease, and there was the prerelease core@v0.4.3 too this week.
Developed by: @dskvr
Source: https://github.com/sandwichfarm/notemine/releases/tag/wrapper%40v0.1.3
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Nostr-spring-boot-starter is a Spring Boot starter projects for building Nostr applications. This release includes breaking changes like method renames and removals in MoreEvents, MoreIdentities, and Nip40, new methods added in Nip40: findExpiration and expire, nostr-proto modules externalized, and Gradle upgraded to v8.12.
Developed by: @theborakompanioni
Source: https://github.com/theborakompanioni/nostr-spring-boot-starter/releases/tag/0.2.0
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Dart Nostr Development Kit is a Nostr Development Kit for Dart applications. This release introduces support for Blossom and updated documentation. This release improves resources for developers working with Nostr in the Dart environment.
Developed by: @leolox
Source: https://github.com/relaystr/ndk/releases/tag/v0.2.6
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Bostr 2 is a Nostr bouncer relay aggregator proxy implemented in Go. This release adds a client IP forwarder and fixes some user agent changer issues to make the agent more functional and robust for efficient relay management.
Developed by: Yonle (npub1x3a…g4el)
Source: https://github.com/Yonle/bostr2/releases/tag/v1.1.1
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🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
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Citrine is an Android-based Nostr relay that makes it really easy to transmit as well as receive events from Nostr clients on Android. This version brings back the "restore follows" button, database backup notifications, and more importantly, it allows listening to pokey broadcasts. The following updates make life easier and more reliable for Nostr clients depending on Citrine.
Developed by: greenart7c3 (npub1w4u…0jr5)
Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine/releases/tag/v0.7.1
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👋 Stay in Touch & Zap
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Nostr is built by the plebs, for the plebs. If you found this recap helpful, consider supporting me—Nomishka—with a zap. Right now, I’m in a tough spot: jobless and struggling to make ends meet. Most days, I’m barely able to afford food, and honestly, 210,000 sats per month would help provide a basic income to cover essential needs.
I’m committed to supporting Nostr, and I split a part of the zaps I receive for this note with the plebs mentioned in this recap for all their great effort. Thank you so much for being part of this journey. Let me know your thoughts about this Eighth recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #nostrrecap, and let’s keep #grownostr together.
Recap by NomishkaDilshan (npub19hs…5jcn)