Nostr Compass #9 The next edition of the newsletter is out, covering many development updates across Mostro beta: P2P Bitcoin trading on mobile after 3 years dev. Zapstore 1.0: Permissionless Android app store is stable. Antiprimal: Bridges Primal cache to standard NIPs NIP-45: HyperLogLog counting with 256 bytes

Nostr Compass #8 is out! This week: • rust-nostr ships major API redesign (21 PRs) • Nostria 3.0 launches with dual pane navigation • Vector adds SIMD acceleration (65x-184x speedups) • Frostr brings threshold signing to iOS • NIP-47 gets hold invoice support for escrow payments • NIP-74 proposes podcast standards • Pod21 launches decentralized 3D printing marketplace Plus: Damus NIP-19 relay hints, Primal NWC encryption, nostr-tools fixes, and 17 more project updates. Read the full issue:

Nostr Compass Podcast #7 Ridestr builds decentralized ridesharing with Cashu. Pomade adds email-based multisig recovery. Damus ships negentropy. Five years of Nostr. The participants discuss decentralized ridesharing with Ridestr, multisig key recovery via Pomade, and Damus’s new DM sync via negentropy. We review client updates across Amethyst, Amber, Marmot, and Shopstr — plus major NIP proposals for encrypted sync, file storage, and community management. Finally, we reflect on five years of Nostr's evolution. https://blossom.primal.net/e5a05d9413d4a9a15b2375bc2a93dec5b13bbe0c95c3d12662f3b6460ed00ba7.ogg #podcast

Nostr Compass Podcast #7 Ridestr builds decentralized ridesharing with Cashu. Pomade adds email-based multisig recovery. Damus ships negentropy. Five years of Nostr. The participants discuss decentralized ridesharing with Ridestr, multisig key recovery via Pomade, and Damus’s new DM sync via negentropy. We review client updates across Amethyst, Amber, Marmot, and Shopstr — plus major NIP proposals for encrypted sync, file storage, and community management. Finally, we reflect on five years of Nostr's evolution.

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Nostr Compass Podcast #6 Bitchat ditches C Tor for Rust Tor, we explore how AI is reviving abandoned Nostr projects, with JeffG sharing how he resurrected Listr after a year of dormancy. The panel debates relay trust assertions and whether standardized scoring helps or hurts decentralization. Post-quantum cryptography gets a reality check: 105 qubits today versus the million needed to break current crypto. Plus release updates from Amber, Zeus, Primal, White Noise, and NostrDB's new streaming queries. https://blossom.primal.net/f55d32533ebeb053d51674e0f9671c8bca9aae0f9768f6037627559e04b6bb53.ogg #podcast #nostr

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Nostr Compass #7 is out. This week: someone's actually building Uber on Nostr: Ridestr uses Cashu escrow for trustless rides. Damus finally fixes those missing DMs with negentropy sync. We also traced Nostr's full journey every January from 7 relays and a Hacker News thread in 2021 to audited infrastructure today.

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# Nostr Compass #6 Nostr infrastructure levels up this week. Bitchat migrates to Rust's Arti for memory-safe Tor, eliminating crashes and battery drain. nostrdb-rs adds streaming queries for zero-allocation database ops. Listr returns after a year dormant with NDK 3 beta and pagination. Zeus merges 17 NWC fixes while Primal Android ships wallet backups and NIP-92 media dimensions. Draft NIP for Trusted Relay Assertions proposes scoring relays 0-100 across reliability, quality, and accessibility metrics. NIP-11 self-reported relay docs combine with NIP-66 independent monitoring (kind 30166 events) for informed relay selection beyond hardcoded defaults. Open PRs signal major architectural shifts: Damus embeds Arti for native Tor, implements Negentropy for efficient sync (megabytes to kilobytes), and adds Low Data Mode. Marmot's MIP-03 solves distributed chat race conditions with deterministic commit ordering. Full newsletter: