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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. nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9 community support: Bringing nostr to nostr:npub1zmg6w6wzd6pddfd0jzfr26jqh82vptt0z3mul7lmmax7qzc2986quadsuu 2025
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2. Gratitude for 30000 followers from nostr:npub17nd4yu9anyd3004pumgrtazaacujjxwzj36thtqsxskjy0r5urgqf6950x
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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 nostr:npub1xdtducdnjerex88gkg2qk2atsdlqsyxqaag4h05jmcpyspqt30wscmntxy 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: nostr:npub1qe3e5wrvnsgpggtkytxteaqfprz0rgxr8c3l34kk3a9t7e2l3acslezefe, nostr:npub1l77twp5l02jadkcjn6eeulv2j7y5vmf9tf3hhtq7h7rp0vzhgpzqz0swft, nostr:npub1hz5alqscpp8yjrvgsdp2n4ygkl8slvstrgvmjca7e45w6644ew7sewtysa , nostr:npub1nkmta4dmsa7pj25762qxa6yqxvrhzn7ug0gz5frp9g7p3jdscnhsu049fn, nostr:npub1r30l8j4vmppvq8w23umcyvd3vct4zmfpfkn4c7h2h057rmlfcrmq9xt9ma
🔗 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: nostr:npub1purpleye8gzrzss99nzqqnemtf7g8xxj8p950nkyknnuqzycuh5qnazkzp
Join with nostr:npub1purpleye8gzrzss99nzqqnemtf7g8xxj8p950nkyknnuqzycuh5qnazkzp 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 nostr:npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 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: nostr:npub1nstrcu63lzpjkz94djajuz2evrgu2psd66cwgc0gz0c0qazezx0q9urg5l
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. nostr:npub1cz8w4hn4qcrxl7uv524vwsjyyzw9jz2fdhw3gdwj96940cvv7hcsxe06v6 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 nostr:npub1nz64zngcqm8vj8nhrdkcjpfwn2rcaqysnxec88tqfclp5afrpglsqm0w5y. 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 nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft 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
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1. Sats Earned: 748k
Zaps Received: 621
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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: nostr:npub19yeqjawls407xjnmgkk6yss7936pcd7qzd5srlj8wye6j8433vrsjazqwk
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: nostr:npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5
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: nostr:npub14j7wc366rf8efqvnnm8m68pazy04kkj8fgu6uqumh3eqlhfst0kqrngtpf
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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: nostr:npub1xvdg698f7fqdu2qu5azwa6fu8xhw8p0zpp272qe7qex7kpn5ks5su3am9l
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: nostr:npub1x3azxuysp5vmfer4vgs4jn5tmfcx4ew8sh0qnev7gczljxsr7jwqa3g4el
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: nostr:npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5
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 nostr:npub19hs0lg9vyd0lghayeju5fnflx0melawjrl8etuqln9gkhd4mwtxq2t5jcn