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#1 🧠 Quote of the Week “i am focused on building out nostr because it has a real chance to obsolete facebook, tiktok, whatsapp, telegram, and x” #quote_nostr_recap

#6 📰 Nostr in the Media 1. Building on Nostr: Open protocols and new possibilities , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Au80NXTimc 2. How X outages drove VPN & Nostr use https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jo7-Q5kOvOY 3. AINSLEY COSTELLO: Music, Bitcoin, Nostr , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSvDPGHE3SM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoO57-lU4UU 4. Nostr Won’t Go Mainstream https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jYZri7XW2js 5. Bitcoin, Nostr & AI: The New Internet Stack Nobody Is Ready For with Aleks Svetski , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d3dWk84kT0 #media_nostr_recap

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#2 🔥 Community Highlights 1. Rabble invites Devs to make Nostr better 2. When the speaker combination is great, the discussion is so interesting 👇 3. This is 100% true 💯 4. This is why plebs love Nostr 💜 5. This is well said 👇 6. Seems interesting to check this out 🤔 7. This pleb has lovely ideas about life 👇 8. If you make a value, community comes to you 🫵 9. This is the reality of X 😏 10. What is your idea about this? 11. These kinds of signing offs of valuable plebs, doesn’t give positive effects to Nostr 😔 12. So happy to see these kind of notes ❤️ 13. Schools is a place which teaches whole bunch of useless subjects that student doesn’t like to learn 👨‍🏫 14. This new pleb seems so ambitious here 👇 15. Nostr workshop at Bitcoin Amsterdam 👌 #community_nostr_recap

#8 😂 Nostr Memes 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. #memes_nostr_recap

#1 🧠 Quote of the Week “Nostr is whatever users, not devs, want it to be.” #quote_nostr_recap

#2 🔥 Community Highlights 1. This is the truth about Nostr 👇 2. Primal faced a trouble with the Cloudflare outage 😟 3. The speciality here is that most Nostriches are grateful for their lives ✌️ 4. A lot of things to learn from this community 📚 5. Seems Nostrasia was such a nice meetup 😍 6. A heartbreaking story with a life lesson 😢 7. Let’s learn english on Nostr 📖 8. That’s the power of Nostr? 💪 9. Nostr is better than X indeed 👍 10. This is really true by the Nostr founder 👇 11. Yep, that is Nostr 😉 12. Hmm, something to think 🤔 13. Nostr is awesome 🫡 14. A special statement from Mastodon CEO 📢 15. This is the truth about vibe coding 👨‍💻 16. A Pretty pleb celebrates her 29th birthday in Nostr 🎂 #community_nostr_recap

#2 🔥 Community Highlights 1. We must help to Rabble for his great effort. All together we can do that. Nostr Devs and Community, This is the time to change the system 👨‍💻 2. This is way the Nostr is growing. Appreciate the work 👌 3. Two Nostr giants bringing Nostr to websummit 👇 4. This is how a good dad makes the future of his baby 👨‍🍼 5. It is a big loss. Deepest sympathies from all the Nostr community 😢 6. We must protect these Nostriches who has been done a great work 👇 7. A new lady pleb is talking in her first post on Nostr 🗣️ 8. Are you also more interested in text only notes in Nostr? 🤔 9. So happy to see these new onboardings 😍 10. A lady nostrich is celebrating her birthday 🎂 11. 100% Agree about this 👇 12. This is a great work by Sebastian 👏 13. We should be on Nostr just if we need a great community and freedom. Not for virality 👈 #community_nostr_recap

#2 🔥 Community Highlights 1. We must help to Rabble for his great effort. All together we can do that. Nostr Devs and Community, This is the time to change the system 👨‍💻 2. This is way the Nostr is growing. Appreciate the work 👌 3. Two Nostr giants bringing Nostr to websummit 👇 4. This is how a good dad makes the future of his baby 👨‍🍼 5. It is a big loss. Deepest sympathies from all the Nostr community 😢 6. We must protect these Nostriches who has been done a great work 👇 7. A new lady pleb is talking in her first post on Nostr 🗣️ 8. Are you also more interested in text only notes in Nostr? 🤔 9. So happy to see these new onboardings 😍 10. A lady nostrich is celebrating her birthday 🎂 11. 100% Agree about this 👇 12. This is a great work by Sebastian 👏 13. We should be on Nostr just if we need a great community and freedom. Not for virality 👈 #community_nostr_recap

#2 🔥 Community Highlights 1. We must help to Rabble for his great effort. All together we can do that. Nostr Devs and Community, This is the time to change the system 👨‍💻 2. This is way the Nostr is growing. Appreciate the work 👌 3. Two Nostr giants bringing Nostr to websummit 👇 4. This is how a good dad makes the future of his baby 👨‍🍼 5. It is a big loss. Deepest sympathies from all the Nostr community 😢 6. We must protect these Nostriches who has been done a great work 👇 7. A new lady pleb is talking in her first post on Nostr 🗣️ 8. Are you also more interested in text only notes in Nostr? 🤔 9. So happy to see these new onboardings 😍 10. A lady nostrich is celebrating her birthday 🎂 11. 100% Agree about this 👇 12. This is a great work by Sebastian 👏 13. We should be on Nostr just if we need a great community and freedom. Not for virality 👈 #community_nostr_recap

#2 🔥 Community Highlights 1. The team leads Jurjen are doing a great work 👌 2. This is a great work by OpenSats 👌 3. Let’s deep dive into Primal Premium 👇 4. This will be a good decision he got in his life 🔥 5. Let’s learn Russian 🇷🇺 6. A pleb is happy about achieving 1000 followers ☺️ 7. Arjen is selling his decentralized home 🚐 8. Be careful when you buy/sell things on Nostr related apps ⚠️ 9. Amethyst is fixing a feature that should be fixed 🤙 10. A small gift for the christmas from verbiricha 🎁 11. This is 💯% true 12. It takes time to grow in Nostr ⏳ 13. Seems like this pleb likes Nostr very much 😍 14. What do you need from Nostr nostriches? 🤔 15. You will meet Nostr in FOSDEM 2026 😍 #community_nostr_recap

#1 🧠 Quotes of the Week “nostr wins if it stops trying to be a twitter clone and starts being the invisible layer underneath apps you actually want to use.” “Why I love Nostr even more. It’s not information overload, it’s filter failure. Nostr gives me the agency to use the best filters. Platforms don’t.” #quote_nostr_recap

#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 870 relays online in more than 45 countries at the moment. According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: - Total Users: 2,559, compared to 2,516 users the week before According to https://stats.nostr.band, During last week: - Total Zaps: 36,757, compared to 33,858 zaps the week before - Total Zap senders: 2,462, compared to 3,379 plebs the week before - Total Zap Amount: 10,041,432, compared to 9,838,060 sats the week before - Total Events: 3,449,581, compared to 3,960,045 events the week before Many thanks to https://npub.world/stats by and , https://stats.nostr.band by , all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr and https://nostr.watch for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap

#5 📅 Upcoming Events 1. Nostr live talk radio - December 2025 📅 Date: Saturday, December 6, 2025 ⏰ Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM GMT 📍 Location: https://cornychat.com/nostrradio 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: 🔗 Event: https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzps78xgf0kmxc35dvcx8ksjwxvrzx50yh9066wek9jwxsvj0amjmuqq3kxmmjdeukx6rpwshxxmmd94hx7um5wfexzerfduknzdekx5crzdfjxqcq96vvp9 2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - December 2025 📅 Date: Sunday, December 7, 2025 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MST 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: Chris Curran 🔗 Event: https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyhcqbkb #events_nostr_recap

#6 📰 Nostr in the Media 1. alby community call - Recurrent cozy hour with developers, users and interesting projects in Bitcoin, Nostr & Lightning ecosystem , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFU-q8EuFZk 2. Soapbox Sessions Episode 13: Nostr is diVine with the Vine app Reboot , , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_-euKOgFUc 3. How Nostr & Bitcoin are being used in Venezuela , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu6t5Wjpg7M 4. Nostr Protocol: Take CONTROL of Your Online Audience! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipcyVieZiDY 5. Nostr: Secure Your Online Identity & Content Freedom https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TSWLQiuNjSs 6. Decentralizing Digital Identity & Encrypted Messaging , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCr6U0vuqVY 7. Nostr is a Friendly, Collaborative Community https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fopU0lu8ESs 8. The Internet Just Split In Two: Which Side Are You On? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rGjQfU7rNU #media_nostr_recap

#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 https://zaplife.lol by 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: Zaps Received: 1004 Sats Earned: 1k 2. Name: Zaps Received: 801 Sats Earned: 71k 3. Name: Zaps Received: 397 Sats Earned: 25k 🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers 1. Name: Zaps Sent: 799 Sats Spent: 71k 2. Name: Zaps Sent: 459 Sats Spent: 4k 3. Name: Zaps Sent: 344 Sats Spent: 1k 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received 1. Name: Sats Earned: 726k Zaps Received: 344 2. Name: Sats Earned: 540k Zaps Received: 9 3. Name: Sats Earned: 351k Zaps Received: 44 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent 1. Name: Sats Spent: 797k Zaps Sent: 71 2. Name: Sats Spent: 250k Zaps Sent: 3 3. Name: “The name not visible” Sats Spent: 218k Zaps Sent: 4 #most-zapped_nostr_recap

#9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases 1. vnak - New Tool vnak (Visual Nostr Army Knife) is a lightweight, visual version of the Nostr Army Knife (nak) designed to provide accessible, graphical tools for interacting with Nostr. While similar in purpose to nak, vnak is currently less feature-complete and focuses on core visual functionalities rather than the full range of capabilities. Developed by: Source: https://github.com/fiatjaf/vnak 2. Coracle - 0.6.27 Coracle is a web-based Nostr client designed to explore advanced Nostr features such as intelligent relay selection, web-of-trust moderation, personalized content recommendations, and strong privacy protections. In this version, the update delivers a few small but important fixes: correcting imgproxy URL handling, preventing non-links from being incorrectly linkified, and fixing a minor typo. Developed by: Source: https://github.com/coracle-social/coracle/releases/tag/0.6.27 3. Amber - v4.0.3-pre1 Amber is a Nostr event-signing app for Android that keeps your nsec safely stored in one dedicated place while signing events for other Nostr apps. This release improves security, stability, and usability by fixing bunker shutdown issues, adding account export/import, separating relay requests per account, improving encryption/decryption behavior, supporting ping requests, and adding crash reporting. It also cleans up logs/history in separate databases, improves saved-account handling, and updates dependencies, resulting in smoother account management, safer key usage, and more reliable relay interactions. Developed by: Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v4.0.3-pre1 4. Aegis - v0.3.2 iOS & Mac release Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr signer that lets users securely sign events and connect via multiple methods. This release adds WSS support for local relays, fixes multi-account subscription issues and subscription failures after relay restarts, and improves overall user experience for smoother and more reliable operation. Developed by: Source: https://github.com/ZharlieW/Aegis/releases/tag/v0.3.2 5. Nostria - android-v1.0.6 Nostria is a decentralized social networking app built on Nostr, giving users control over their profile, data, and interactions while resisting censorship. This version adds support for Android share targets, integrates the NWC protocol handler for seamless connections, and introduces a maskable app icon for improved device compatibility and visual consistency. Developed by: Source: https://github.com/nostria-app/nostria/releases/tag/android-v1.0.6 6. Keychat - v1.37.2+6475 Keychat is a chat application built on Bitcoin Ecash, Nostr, Signal, and MLS protocols, enabling secure, encrypted messaging across platforms. This release improves message handling by fixing NIP-17 message sorting and allowing users to switch logged-in identities in the browser, while adding features like in-browser file downloads, special badges for NIP-04 and NIP-17 messages, replying to NIP-04 messages, and requesting device microphone permissions, enhancing usability, interactivity, and security for users. Developed by: kcdev Source: https://github.com/keychat-io/keychat-app/releases/tag/v1.37.2%2B6475 7. NosCall - v0.4.0 NosCall is a secure, cross-platform audio and video calling app built on the Nostr protocol, offering end-to-end encryption for private communications. This release adds Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode for Android and iOS, redesigns the video call interface for a smoother user experience, and fixes Android auto-login issues, improving usability, multitasking, and reliability for users. Developed by: Source: https://github.com/sanah9/noscall/releases/tag/v0.4.0-release 8. Vector - v0.2.2 Vector is a decentralized, end-to-end encrypted communication platform built on the Nostr protocol (NIP-17). This release adds the first Android APK, an encrypted SQLite database, Storage Manager, and Primary Device setting for Group Invites. It improves synchronization speed, file attachment and UI design, profile/message shortcuts, and settings polish, while fixing group chat bugs, media crashes, emoji panel jitter, and excessive UI re-renders, resulting in a faster, smoother, and more reliable user experience. Developed by: Source: https://github.com/VectorPrivacy/Vector/releases/tag/v0.2.2 9. White Noise - v0.2.1 White Noise is a secure, decentralized chat app built on the Nostr protocol using MLS encryption, designed to protect privacy while providing a smooth messaging experience. This release introduces enhanced notifications with deep linking, automatic clearing, unread counts, and localization support. Image handling is improved with automatic downloads, zoom functionality, and media icons in previews. User experience refinements include unique identicons, better scroll behavior, and protection against accidental profile edits. Chat bugs and notification issues are fixed, while UI elements like avatar colors, padding, and keypackage buttons are polished. Under the hood, performance is boosted with optimized group metadata loading, non-blocking user fetches, smarter data synchronization, and more efficient notifications, resulting in a faster, smoother, and more reliable app. Developed by: Source: https://github.com/marmot-protocol/whitenoise/releases/tag/v0.2.1%2B14 #tools_nostr_recap

#10 🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases 1. snow-actions/nostr - v1.8.2 snow-actions/nostr is a GitHub Action used to automatically send Nostr events from GitHub workflows. This release improves reliability and security by adding clearer proxy tags in notifications, strengthening tests, and updating multiple dependencies (including nostr-tools, ws, dotenv, eslint, jest, GitHub Actions libraries, and hashing modules). These updates benefit developers by ensuring better protocol compatibility, improved performance, enhanced security, and more stable automation when publishing Nostr events directly from CI/CD pipelines. Developed by: Source: https://github.com/snow-actions/nostr/releases/tag/v1.8.2 2. Nostr Webhost (hostr) - v0.1.7 Nostr Webhost (hostr) is a command-line tool that lets you host and deploy Single Page Applications (SPAs) directly onto the Nostr network by publishing them through distributed relays instead of traditional web servers. In version v0.1.7, the project adds support for configuring both a local web server and relay settings, updates its build and release configuration, upgrades the Docker base image and GitHub Actions to Go 1.25, and refreshes dependency versions. These changes benefit developers by making deployments more flexible, improving compatibility and performance, and ensuring smoother, more reliable hosting of SPAs across Nostr’s decentralized infrastructure. This was the biggest update of the week, and there were another two releases (v0.1.6, v0.1.8) last week. Developed by: Source: https://github.com/studiokaiji/nostr-webhost/releases/tag/v0.1.7 3. Mostro CLI - v0.14.4 Mostro CLI is a command-line client for the Mostro P2P marketplace, letting users and admins manage trades, disputes, and solver actions via terminal. This version improves admin workflows by renaming NSEC_PRIVKEY to ADMIN_NSEC, making it optional for non-admin commands, adding helper functions to fetch and validate keys, updating display messages, and refactoring key-handling logic for clearer, more maintainable code, resulting in a smoother setup and fewer configuration errors. Developed by: , Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro-cli/releases/tag/v0.14.4 4. Gitplaza - v0.21.0 Gitplaza is a desktop Nostr client focused on managing Git-related activity, allowing users to interact with repositories, issues, and events within the Nostr network. In this release it introduces an advanced activity filter, incorporates nut-zaps into the web-of-trust calculation, adds a settings button for submitting Gitplaza issues, improves hashtag handling and upvote behavior, and enforces input restrictions for release details. Performance improvements prioritize efficient subscription filters and abort outdated requests, while bug fixes resolve login button clickability, inline event processing, feed updates, and race conditions, resulting in a smoother, more reliable experience for developers and users managing Git projects via Nostr. This was the latest release of the week, and there was also the release of v0.20.0 last week. Developed by: Source: https://codeberg.org/dluvian/gitplaza/releases/tag/v0.21.0 #dev-tools_nostr_recap