🗞️ The Latest the Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap - 24th February 2025 🚀
12th Edition
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🧠 Quote of the Week
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jack
“nostr doesn’t need everyone. only the best. quality over quantity. it’ll happen.”
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🔥 Community Highlights
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1. Resin talk by Djuri at tech Tuesday on 18th February 2025
2. Thinking of Short Fiat about Nostr
3. The experience of SoapMiner about Nostr
4. Paul Keating rented surf boards with friends with paying in #bitcoin at South Surf Costa Rica
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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: 53,008, compared to 54,014 zaps the week before
Total zap amount: 6,962,176, compared to 7,589,067 sats the week before
Total events: 5,958,961, compared to 5,297,646 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 connect Primal wallet to #olas client
2. Coingecko gives Safety and Privacy tips before starting Nostr
3. BitcoinerTalk explains how to setup nostr using Primal Client
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📅 Upcoming Events
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1. 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
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!
2. FediForum April 2025
📅 Date: April 1-2, 2025, 8:30 PM IST – 1:30 AM IST
📍 Location: Online Event
🤹♀️ Organizers: FediForum
🔗 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.
3. Nostr.World Community Event
📅 Date: Q4 2025
📍 Location: Argentina
🤹♀️ Organizers: Nostriga
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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No updates this week. If you have some input for the next recap about recent nostr in the media resources, please share it and I will add it in the next recap.
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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 PABLOF7z 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: 143
Sats Earned: 17k
2. Zaps Received: 136
Sats Earned: 58k
3. Zaps Received: 72
Sats Earned: 9k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats
1. Sats Earned: 58k
Zaps Received: 136
2. Sats Earned: 17k
Zaps Received: 143
3. Sats Earned: 9k
Zaps Received: 72
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😂 Nostr Memes
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🛠️ Tools, Updates, and Releases
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1. yumyume - Social Bookmarking on Nostr (New tool)
yumyume is a new social bookmarking tool for Nostr. This MVP aims to bring seamless bookmarking to the Nostr ecosystem, allowing users to save and organize content efficiently. The concept is from Jurjen de Vries.
To support its growth, contributions to the Geyser campaign are encouraged, with rewards available for even less than the cost of a yearly Pinboard subscription.
https://geyser.fund/project/yumyume
Developed by: Iftakhar Hasnayen Abir
Source: https://gitlab.com/digitalethicsagency/nostr/yumyume
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🎁 Developer Tools, updates and Guides
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1. Dart Nostr Development kit (NDK) - v0.3.0
NDK (Nostr Development Kit) is a Dart library that enhances the Nostr development experience. This release introduces account use cases with signer switching and major improvements to Blossom. Documentation updates now include a gossip guide and account management. Key fixes ensure proper relay connections, improve Blossom parsing and testing, and upgrade Objectbox. Additional enhancements include better persistence handling, JIT optimizations, and improved broadcast support.
Developed by: leo, fmar, Anipy
Source: https://github.com/relaystr/ndk/releases/tag/v0.3.0
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🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
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1. Servus - v0.1.10
Servus is a self-contained, single-executable CMS and blogging engine inspired by Jekyll, designed to act as a personal Nostr relay for sharing blog posts. This release introduces a tagging system to distinguish between posts and pages, making it easier to organize and categorize content. Additionally, it now takes the X-Forwarded-Proto header into account, improving handling of forwarded requests in certain environments.
Developed by: ibz
Source: https://github.com/servus-social/servus/releases/tag/v0.1.10
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👋 Stay in Touch & Zap
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Recap by Nomishka Dilshan