• 🧠 Quote of the Week
• 🔥 Community Highlights
  • 1. The latest dose of Revolution.social: Rabble with Adam Aleksic
  • 2. A lady pleb so happy to be here on Nostr
  • 3. Nostr doesn’t do this for you
  • 4. This is an awesome freedom
  • 5. This pleb has realized the importance of Nostr
  • 6. This is 100% true
  • 7. A farmer is being a Nostrich
  • 8. What do you think about this? Do you agree?
  • 9. This Pleb proves the freedom on Nostr
  • 10. Everyone of you can find your joy and happiness in Nostr
  • 11. Wanna be an influencer? This is the path
  • 12. Community should help these projects to make Nostr better
• 🌱 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 850 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment.
  • According to https://npub.world/stats,
  • During last week:
  • Total Users: 1519, compared to 1621 zaps the week before
  • According to https://stats.nostr.band,
  • During last week:
  • Total zaps: 35,950, compared to 34,070 zaps the week before
  • Total zap senders: 2,677, compared to 2,609 plebs the week before
  • Total zap amount: 6,292,007, compared to 10,279,977 sats the week before
  • Total events: 2,502,744, compared to 2,282,427 events the week before
• 🎓 Educational Guides
  • 1. NOSTR Explained for Beginners ⚡️✨
• 📅 Upcoming Events
  • 1. Nostr Valley 2.0 - October 2025
  • 2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - November 2025
  • 3. Nostrasia - November 2025
• 📰 Nostr in the Media
  • 1. This is how Nostr benefits users
  • 2. Max Hillebrand on White Noise & Private Messaging on Nostr
  • 3. I am sure these comments will make some plebs
  • 4. This is well said: 100% agree
• ⚡ Most Zapped Last Week
  • Here are the Top Zapped/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing creators who received/sent the most engagement:
  • 🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
  • 🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
  • 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
  • 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
  • Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement:
  • 🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
  • 🔥 Top 3: Most Sats
• 😂 Nostr Memes
• 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
  • 1. Flotilla - 1.3.0
  • 2. Coop - v0.2.11
  • 3. Yakihonne Mobile App - 1.9.1
• 🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases
  • 1. Mostro-core - v0.6.55
  • 2. Aegis - v0.0.2-beta
  • 3. GitPlaza - v0.11.0
  • 4. Nostrcheck Server - 0.7.0
• 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
  • 1. Nosflare - v7.4.13
• 👋 Stay in Touch & Zap
• 🙌 Credits

§🧠 Quote of the Week

@Ryan

“You’re free to post what you want. Relay operators are free to host what they want. You’re free to host your own relay. Users are free to block what they want. Clients are free to block what they want. Users are free to use whatever client they want.”

§🔥 Community Highlights

§1. The latest dose of Revolution.social: Rabble with Adam Aleksic

§2. A lady pleb so happy to be here on Nostr

§3. Nostr doesn’t do this for you

§4. This is an awesome freedom

§5. This pleb has realized the importance of Nostr

§6. This is 100% true

§7. A farmer is being a Nostrich

§8. What do you think about this? Do you agree?

§9. This Pleb proves the freedom on Nostr

§10. Everyone of you can find your joy and happiness in Nostr

§11. Wanna be an influencer? This is the path

§12. Community should help these projects to make Nostr better

Sebastix

Oct 4, 2025 08:50

#FOSDEM 2026 preparations have begun. At the last edition of FOSDEM it was the first time that Nostr -as a protocol- attended. Now with the next edition coming up, almost all of the nostriches who volunteered bringing Nostr to FOSDEM will be there again. @Jurjen de Vries @Sync @laoc42 @Constant @HERMETICVM @p6xy…h0rm We could use some more help as we’re going to apply for a dev room besides a having a stand during the conference. If we get a dev room, we are able to organize our little own Nostr event with a program (workshops, keynotes etc) within FOSDEM. So if you’re interested to help, please reach out to us.

Here are some notes / links recapping FOSDEM 2025:

Referenced note not yet available note1m3ru30q…asls9d3x

https://youtu.be/Tbt3jL1Ms0w https://fosdem.org/2025/events/attachments/fosdem-2025-6452-nostr-notes-and-other-stuff-transmitted-by-relays/slides/237627/Nostr_FOS_jW08Poa.odp nostr:/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpjpc8kqa6fzqvazmdpqfheqdvusuxqgzj3jqvl7v2z39mhu3892fqqszv4fc5k6d6cqynfn5q36zm265ncwglqmwkckt0cyfp2zryu20umc09ldzn https://nostrver.se/blog/fosdem-nostr-php-updates-week-5-and-6

by Sebastix

March 9 2025

FOSDEM & Nostr-PHP updates from week 5 and 6

What started as an idea during Bitcoin 2024 Amsterdam, we accomplished it on February 1 & 2: be there with Nostr at FOSDEM! FOSDEM is one of the worlds biggest conferences for free and open-source minded people & communities held since 2000 in Brussels (Belgium).

FOSDEM 2026 will take place on Saturday 31th of January and Sunday 1st of February in Brussels (Belgium 🇧🇪). https://fosdem.org/2026/

Please repost! 🙏

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§🌱 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 850 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment.

§According to https://npub.world/stats,

§During last week:

• §Total Users: 1519, compared to 1621 zaps the week before

§According to https://stats.nostr.band,

§During last week:

• §Total zaps: 35,950, compared to 34,070 zaps the week before

• §Total zap senders: 2,677, compared to 2,609 plebs the week before

• §Total zap amount: 6,292,007, compared to 10,279,977 sats the week before

• §Total events: 2,502,744, compared to 2,282,427 events the week before

Many thanks to https://npub.world/stats by @pip and @franzap https://stats.nostr.band by @brugeman all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr and https://nostr.watch for providing these insights.

§🎓 Educational Guides

§1. NOSTR Explained for Beginners ⚡️✨

@daniella

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EhXdsJr8Hw

§📅 Upcoming Events

§1. Nostr Valley 2.0 - October 2025

• 📅 Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025

• ⏰ Time: 9:30 PM - 1:30 AM EDT

• 📍 Location: Happy Valley Brewing Company, 137, Elmwood Street, State College, Centre County, Pennsylvania, 16801, United States 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @NostrValley

• 🔗 Event: https://nostrvalley.com/schedule

§2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - November 2025

• 📅 Date: Sunday, November 02, 2025

• ⏰ Time: 12:00 PM - 1.00 PM MST

• 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, USA

• 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: Chris Curran

• 🔗 Event: https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyhcpbdb/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

§3. Nostrasia - November 2025

• 📅 Date: Saturday, November 22, 2025

• ⏰ Time: 1:00 PM - 9:00 PM GMT+9 (Doors open at 12:30 PM)

• 📍 Location: Crypto Lounge GOX, 6F Tenam Town Building, 2-19-15 Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0021, Japan

• 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @Nostrasia

• 🔗 Event:

  apco

  Sep 22, 2025 11:32

  🚀 Nostrasia 2025 is happening! 🚀

  📅 Date: Saturday, November 22, 2025 📍 Venue: Crypto Lounge GOX(in Tokyo) 🎟️ Admission: Free

  Not just for Nostr users—anyone interested in decentralized social media is welcome! Talks, merch, and even a shrine where you can draw your fortune—lots of fun content awaits!

  👉 Join here: https://nostrasia.com

  #nostrasia2025

  Referenced event not yet available nevent1qvzqq…dsfh0uww

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§📰 Nostr in the Media

§1. This is how Nostr benefits users

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8pQg-MMHzNg

§2. Max Hillebrand on White Noise & Private Messaging on Nostr

@Max

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amNaZ35KIo8

§3. I am sure these comments will make some plebs

@pnwc…suj7

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPSED_wkqmt

@Zulfaqar

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPYZ6WvDXiF

§4. This is well said: 100% agree

@jakewoodhouse

https://x.com/jakewoodhouseio/status/1974546310461005833

§⚡ 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 https://zaplife.lol by @PABLOF7z for providing this data.

§Here are the Top Zapped/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing creators who received/sent the most engagement:

§🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

1. Name: @flash

   • Zaps Received: 678
   • Sats Earned: 47k

2. Name: @Ryan

   • Zaps Received: 480
   • Sats Earned: 29k

3. Name: @HODL

   • Zaps Received: 307
   • Sats Earned: 26k

§🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers

1. Name: @fuckstr

   • Zaps Sent: 340
   • Sats Spent: 18k

2. Name: @Rasha

   • Zaps Sent: 249
   • Sats Spent: 3k

3. Name: @FLjustin

   • Zaps Sent: 213
   • Sats Spent: 29k

§💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received

1. Name: @NostrHackDay

   • Sats Earned: 227k
   • Zaps Received: 5

2. Name: @sg6p…f63m

   • Sats Earned: 178k
   • Zaps Received: 8

3. Name: @xtsc…kk5s

   • Sats Earned: 122k
   • Zaps Received: 108

§💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent

1. Name: @Rizful.com

   • Sats Spent: 407k
   • Zaps Sent: 39

2. Name: Patru

   • Sats Spent: 178k
   • Zaps Sent: 1

3. Name: scrolls of ancient wisdom

   • Sats Spent: 88k
   • Zaps Sent: 36

§Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement:

§🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

1. gladstein

   Oct 1, 2025 13:37

   Out today: Why Bitcoin is Freedom Money

   Journal of Democracy Volume 36, Number 4, October 2025 Johns Hopkins University Press

   Ideal to share with normies, academics, journalists, and intellectuals of all stripes

   Packed with undeniable facts and stories about Bitcoin’s rise as a human rights tool, all in a very credible package

   Very glad to include a section on “Why Bitcoin, not Crypto or Blockchain”

   https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970346

   

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   • Zaps Received: 83
   • Sats Earned: 32k

2. roya ୨୧

   Oct 4, 2025 15:24

   me too

   Greeny

   Oct 4, 2025 15:12

   I wish roya was my GF

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   • Zaps Received: 64
   • Sats Earned: 7k

3. Referenced event not yet available nevent1qvzqq…mcxcg3v9
   • Zaps Received: 55
   • Sats Earned: 21k

§🔥 Top 3: Most Sats

1. VitorPamplona

   Sep 23, 2025 01:34

   Quartz is now Kotlin Multiplatform 🚀 Our goal is to export as much of Amethyst as a library as possible and add many facilities for devs that decide to use native KMP for their Nostr apps. KMP itself is quite young, but it’s growing faster than I initially expected.

   Main benefits are an easier integration of Nostr filters with Outbox-based relay pools and the complete NIP set that Amethyst supports. https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/commit/7a280a3cde49fa7c6fdcd28e8310864940f61187

   View full event
   • Sats Earned: 43k
   • Zaps Received: 3

2. Derek Ross

   Oct 3, 2025 21:22

   we zapped so hard we brought down Wallet of Satoshi. we flexed our might and brought down Alby. we brought down Primal as we grew our movement. we brought down Coinos as we sent tiny pieces of permissionless money back and forth. no wallet was safe.

   Referenced note not yet available note1me79ydf…2qvvx4lc

   View full event
   • Sats Earned: 38k
   • Zaps Received: 10

3. DaveNicholls

   Sep 30, 2025 11:30

   Ways of Looking. 9000 zaps for the entire 21-hour vocabulary course (includes 320-page ebook with images and answers and hyperlinks). All courses on my site are available for the same price, and I’ll even throw in a short speaking class on HiveTalk as you are a Bitcoiner.

   https://www.skype-lessons.com/courses/master-english-vocabulary

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   • Sats Earned: 37k
   • Zaps Received: 1

§😂 Nostr Memes

1.

corndalorian

Oct 4, 2025 12:24

Referenced event not yet available nevent1qqsz9…hg5nw5rm

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2.

corndalorian

Oct 3, 2025 21:33

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3.

corndalorian

Oct 3, 2025 21:08

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4.

corndalorian

Oct 3, 2025 19:38

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5.

corndalorian

Oct 2, 2025 20:57

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6.

corndalorian

Oct 2, 2025 20:29

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8.

corndalorian

Sep 30, 2025 22:02

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9.

10.

corndalorian

Sep 30, 2025 19:34

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11.

corndalorian

Sep 30, 2025 00:22

DMs are literally the worst “feature” of nostr

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12.

DuneMessias

Oct 4, 2025 06:43

GM. Feeling viral. Must be the Bitcoin fever.

Zap Zide #Nostr #bitcoin #GM #coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr #zapzide

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13.

DuneMessias

Oct 2, 2025 06:32

GM. Fridge vibes = ATH vibes.

Zap Zide #Nostr #bitcoin #GM #coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr

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14.

DuneMessias

Oct 1, 2025 06:25

GM. You cannot kill an idea.

Zap Zide #Nostr #bitcoin #GM #coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr

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15.

DuneMessias

Sep 29, 2025 06:36

GM. I hate Mondays.

Zap Zide #Nostr #bitcoin #GM #coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr

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17.

18.

lemon

Oct 1, 2025 05:46

It do be like that

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20.

§🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases

§1. Flotilla - 1.3.0

Flotilla is a Discord-like Nostr client designed around the concept of “relays as groups,” enabling users to chat, manage spaces, and interact in a decentralized way. This release introduces optional badges and sounds for notifications, improves link rendering, restores Blossom feature detection for spaces, and enhances the light theme. It also adds more signer status information, simplifies navigation for adding spaces, enables QR code scanning for invite links, streamlines wallet setup with improved receive address settings, switches mobile storage to Capacitor file API, and fixes duplicate DMs.

• Developed by: @hodlbod
• Source: https://github.com/coracle-social/flotilla/releases/tag/1.3.0

§2. Coop - v0.2.11

Coop is a simple and reliable Nostr client designed for secure messaging across all platforms. In this release, the focus was on improving message handling, with refactoring of the message sending process and follow-up fixes to ensure smoother and more efficient communication within the app.

• Developed by: @reya
• Source: https://github.com/lumehq/coop/releases/tag/v0.2.11

§3. Yakihonne Mobile App - 1.9.1

Yakihonne is a cross-platform mobile app built with Flutter that provides a seamless Nostr experience, allowing users to interact with relays, manage keys securely, and engage with content across platforms. In this release, the app introduced a redesigned app bar with new Black and Ivory themes, a database-first architecture supporting offline mode, relay orbits for easier relay discovery, Nsec bunker integration, updated content boxes and video types, and default custom reactions. Performance optimizations were applied across feeds, notifications, content sharing, and searching, alongside clickable relay URLs, improved handling of Nostr schemes, and various bug fixes for a smoother user experience.

• Developed by: Boukhalfa Seddik
• Source: https://github.com/YakiHonne/yakihonne-mobile-app/releases/tag/YakiHonne-1.9.1

§🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases

§1. Mostro-core - v0.6.55

Mostro Core is a Rust-based library for building Nostr-integrated decentralized applications, providing peer-to-peer functionality and support for Lightning Network features. In this release, it introduced order request handling, added an InvalidFiatCurrency error for better validation, and refactored fiat currency checks to streamline operations. The release also improved CI workflows, removed unnecessary artifact creation, fixed formatting and clippy warnings, and added new error enums in tests, all of which enhance stability, reliability, and developer experience for Nostr-based P2P and Lightning Network applications.

• Developed by: @qqqq…rfkq @Pinball Wizard
• Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro-core/releases/tag/v0.6.55

§2. Aegis - v0.0.2-beta

Aegis is a lightweight, cross-platform Nostr signer that allows users to securely sign events and manage keys using multiple connection methods. In this beta release, Aegis adds support for the NIP-55 Intent Method, enhancing its interoperability with other Nostr tools and enabling seamless event signing across connected applications.

• Developed by: @ZharlieW
• Source: https://github.com/ZharlieW/Aegis/releases/tag/v0.0.2-beta

§3. GitPlaza - v0.11.0

GitPlaza is a desktop Nostr client designed for developers who want to manage Git repositories and issues within the Nostr ecosystem. In this latest release, it adds a search bar for issues, label selection when creating issues, display of issue label chips, support for creating issues with tags derived from content, showing kind numbers for unknown event types, and deduplicating tags when creating events. Performance improvements include faster repo views, optimized database queries, and cleanups on shutdown, while bug fixes address UI notifications, filter persistence, and theme updates.

• Developed by: @dluvian
• Source: https://codeberg.org/dluvian/gitplaza/releases/tag/v0.11.0

§4. Nostrcheck Server - 0.7.0

Nostrcheck Server is a comprehensive Nostr-based server solution designed for managing services while ensuring data sovereignty within the Nostr ecosystem. This release introduces a brand-new Nostr relay built from scratch with full NIP support and adds multi-tenancy capabilities, allowing different domains to run on a single instance with separate configurations. Other improvements include enhanced security, database, and Redis engines, a new logging system, upgraded AI moderation, legal/privacy/TOS pages, a refactored dashboard, custom file type support, better theming, a key converter frontend, a relay management frontend, an improved install script, and general code cleanup, making the platform more robust, configurable, and user-friendly.

• Developed by: @quentin
• Source:
  quentin

  Sep 28, 2025 07:51

  Finally, I’ve just released version 0.7.0 of nostrcheck-server.

  It’s been months of hard work, and I’m proud to deliver the best release this project has ever had. The highlight: the integrated Nostr relay and full multi-tenancy support.

  Changelog 0.7.0

  • The Nostr relay (Brand new, built from scratch with full NIP support)

  • Multi-tenancy support (different domains, different configs, one instance)

  • Improved security engine.

  • Improved database engine.

  • Improved Redis engine.

  • New log engine.

  • Enhanced AI moderation engine.

  • Legal, privacy and TOS pages.

  • Refactored dashboard and settings page.

  • Custom file types and extensions.

  • Improved theming engine.

  • Tons of new configurable options.

  • Key converter frontend page.

  • Relay frontend page.

  • Improved install script.

  • General refactor and code cleanup.

  Thanks to everyone who has followed the project and provided feedback. Available as standalone and Docker install. Enjoy! 🥳

  https://github.com/quentintaranpino/nostrcheck-server

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§🌐 Relay Updates and Releases

§1. Nosflare - v7.4.13

Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay built using Cloudflare Workers and the D1 database, designed for scalability and efficiency without traditional server infrastructure. In this release, a hotfix was introduced to address an issue where durable objects were not utilizing the hibernation API properly. This fix improves resource management and relay performance, ensuring more stable and cost-efficient operation.

• Developed by: @Luxas
• Source: https://github.com/Spl0itable/nosflare/releases/tag/v4.4.13

§👋 Stay in Touch & Zap

Nostr is built by the plebs, for the plebs. If you found this recap helpful, consider supporting me, Nomishka, with a zap.

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 forty-fourth recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #nostrrecap, and let’s keep #grownostr together.

§🙌 Credits

Thank you @Jurjen de Vries for giving me this idea!

A big shoutout to @rabble for his generous patronage!

Thank you, my brother @samalka for helping me to make the graphic stuff in this recap!

Recap by @Nomishka