🗞️ The Latest the Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap - 17th February 2025 🚀
11th Edition
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🧠 Quote of the Week
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“The difference is that Nostr is a protocol. So it's more like the internet itself, like HTTP, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, that allows you to read and interact with websites. There's no company that owns that technology.”
To dive deep into this quote refer #3 at Nostr in the Media.
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🔥 Community Highlights
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1. The Real life instance of Lawrence Lepard proves the importance of Nostr
2. Jack Dorsey on digital freedom
3. Thinking of Gigi about Nostr
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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 54,013, compared to 54,050 zaps the week before
Total zap amount: 7,589,046, compared to 9,882,143 sats the week before
Total events: 5,296,725, compared to 5,452,109 events the week before
Many thanks to https://stats.nostr.band/ by Brugeman for providing these insights.
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🎓 Educational Guide
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1. How to zap from four Nostr clients with Primal Wallet
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📅 Upcoming Events
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1. EENENTWINTIG Utrecht & Nostr Meetup
📅 Date: Tuesday, February 18th, 2025, from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM CET
📍 Location: Seats2meet.com Utrecht CS Hoog Catharijne
above Vredenburgpassage 116, Connect Offices R1, 6th floor, Utrecht.
🤹♀️ Organizers: Djuri & Jurjen De Vries
🔗 https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinmeetup/events/305553221/
Join the next EENENTWINTIG Utrecht & Nostr Meetup at Seats2Meet Utrecht CS! This gathering is a great opportunity to meet other (future) Bitcoiners and Nostr enthusiasts.
🎶 At 19:30, Djuri will present https://resin.estate/, a concept aiming to make owning and financing real estate more accessible through #Nostr and #Bitcoin.
💰 Drinks can be paid for using Bitcoin #Lightning, so make sure to bring your wallet!
This meetup is all about connecting and sharing ideas. Feel free to bring something to #contribute or simply come and engage in discussions. The event lasts as long as people are around, but no later than 23:00 CET.
2. Nostrich Meetup in Konstanz, Germany
📅 Date: Saturday, March 15th, 2025 from 10:00 AM CET
📍 Location: Konstanz, near Lake Constance (Bodensee), Germany
🤹♀️ Organizers: Purple Konnektiv
🔗 Click here for the full note
Join with Purple Konnektiv 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!
3. FediForum April 2025
📅 Date: April 1-2, 2025, 8:30 PM IST – 1:30 AM IST
📍 Location: Online Event🤹♀️ Organizers: Fediforum
🔗 Event: https://events.humanitix.com/fediforum-april-2025?hxchl=hex-pfl
FediForum is an unconference focused on open social protocols and the future of decentralized social media, including the Fediverse, Mastodon, ActivityPub, Bluesky, and ATProto. Discussions will be shaped by attendees, covering topics such as governance, trust and safety, new funding models, and interoperability across platforms.
While Nostr has been part of past discussions and demos from persons like Rabble and Petri, its inclusion in this event will depend on participant interest. If you're passionate about Nostr, consider attending and contributing to the conversation.
4. Nostr.World Community Event
📅 Date: Q4 2025
📍 Location: Argentina
🤹♀️ Organizers: Nostriga
🔗 Click here for the full note
A community-driven event is in the making; early planning is going on to bring the Nostr family 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. Shaun speaks about Nostr at the Bitcoin Learning Center Chiang Mai event
2. Constant speaks on Nostr and the power of freedom of association
3. Rob Long explains difference between Nostr and the other social medias
4. Nostr's censorship-resistance in 30 seconds
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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:
🔥 Top 3: Most Zaps
1. Zaps Received: 99
Sats Earned: 37k
2. Zaps Received: 90
Sats Earned: 59k
3. Zaps Received: 73
Sats Earned: 7k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats
1. Sats Earned: 59k
Zaps Received: 90
2. Sats Earned: 43k
Zaps Received: 22
3. Sats Earned: 37k
Zaps Received: 99
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🛠️ Tools, Updates, and Releases
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1. Amber - v3.2.2
Amber is a nostr event signer for Android. It allows users to keep their nsec segregated in a single, dedicated app. This release introduces the ability to always reject permissions on the multi-event screen, allows users to copy the bunker URI after connecting, and resolves an issue with URL decoding requests from native apps, improving the app's functionality and security.
Developed by: greenart7c3
Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v3.2.2
2. Nowser - 1.0.0
Nowser is a secure nostr key management app for iOS and Android. This release adds Linux WebView support, updates the nip46 encrypt/decrypt method to nip44, and introduces i18n. It also fixes a bug with pending remote relays, improves UI, enables Android signers to retrieve codes from the current user, and adds direct search and suggestions for URL inputs.
Developed by: DASHU
Source: https://github.com/haorendashu/nowser/releases/tag/1.0.0
3. Nostrmo - 2.9.6
Nostrmo is a cross-platform flutter-based nostr client. This release updates the remote signer (NIP-46) encryption method from NIP-04 to NIP-44. It also includes a fix for the tail config bug, addresses issues with some relay pools, and resolves bugs in the direct messaging (DM) feature.
Developed by: DASHU
Source: https://github.com/haorendashu/nostrmo/releases/tag/2.9.6
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🎁 Developer Tools, updates and Guides
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No developer tool updates and releases for this week.
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🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
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No relay updates and releases for this week.
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👋 Stay in Touch
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Recap by Nomishka Dilshan