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nostrrecap 3 months ago
#4 image 1. Why You Should Not Paste Your Nostr Private Key Into Websites 2. Nostr Relay Proxy: Deploying a Nostr Relay Service Using Cloudflare Workers 3. Deploy Buzz on Your Own Kubernetes Cluster 4. How to login to Nostr for decentralized messaging in the USA 5. Someone Built Slack for AI Agents, 22k Stars on GitHub 6. Jack Dorseyโ€™s Buzz: The Open Source Slack for AI Agents Team 7. The Workspace Built for Human #education_nostr_recap
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#3 image Nostr was growing slightly for the last week! According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are over 240 Nostr clients and over 500 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe now. According to Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days): ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Primal iOS - 976 Users - 12.1k Notes ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Amethyst - 879 Users - 16.0k Notes ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Primal Android - 620 Users - 6.4k Notes Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists): ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป relay.momostr.pink - 316.7k Users ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป relay.damus.io - 255.3k Users ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป relay.primal.net - 220.4k Users According to ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Publishing Users last week: 6.42M (+29.5%) ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป New Publishing Users Last week: 5.14M (-16.9%) ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป All-time Zap Count: 7.01M ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.39 BTC ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป All-time Zap Senders: 180.4k According to During last week: ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Total Users: 7,582 users, compared to 7,025 users the week before image Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, by @JeffG, by @Pip the WoT guy, and all the contributors of for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr_recap
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#5 image 1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - September 2026 ๐Ÿ“… Date: Sunday, September 06, 2026 โฐ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT ๐Ÿ“ Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States ๐Ÿคนโ€โ™€๏ธ Organizers: @fractalchris ๐Ÿ”— Event: image https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/315897653/?eventOrigin=group_events_list 2. Munich Nostr Meetup (newbies & nerds welcome) - September 2026 ๐Ÿ“… Date: Thursday, September 17, 2026 โฐ Time: 10:00 PM - 2:00 AM (Event timezone not specified) ๐Ÿ“ Location: Munich ๐Ÿคนโ€โ™€๏ธ Organizers: Munich Nostr Meetup ๐Ÿ”— Event: image #events_nostr_recap
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#7 image Nostrโ€™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 by @PABLOF7z for providing these insights. Here are the Top Zapped/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing the creators who received/sent the most engagement: ๐Ÿ”ฅ Top 3: Most Zapped 1. Name: @FLASH Zaps Received: 427 Sats Earned: 50k 2. Name: @Gigi Zaps Received: 327 Sats Earned: 34k 3. Name: @Fountain Boost Bot Zaps Received: 249 Sats Earned: 832k ๐Ÿ”ฅ Top 3: Most Zappers 1. Name: @AQSTR Zaps Sent: 1573 Sats Spent: 69k 2. Name: @BitBees Zaps Sent: 173 Sats Spent: 4k 3. Name: @Turkey Zaps Sent: 163 Sats Spent: 8k ๐Ÿ’ฐ Top 3: Most Sats Received 1. Name: @Fountain Boost Bot Sats Earned: 832k Zaps Received: 249 2. Name: oshi Sats Earned: 314k Zaps Received: 105 3. Name: @Looker Sats Earned: 250k Zaps Received: 1 ๐Ÿ’ฐ Top 3: Most Sats Sent 1. Name: @El Gorila ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท Sats Spent: โ€œNot showing correctlyโ€ (More than 252k) Zaps Sent: 8 2. Name: @lemon Sats Spent: 252k Zaps Sent: 139 3. Name: @npub1nsqz...knan Sats Spent: 172k Zaps Sent: 2 Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement: ๐Ÿ”ฅ Top 3: Most Zapped 1. View quoted note โ†’ Zaps Received: 242 Sats Earned: 44k 2. View quoted note โ†’ Zaps Received: 84 Sats Earned: 16k 3. View quoted note โ†’ Zaps Received: 62 Sats Earned: 23k ๐Ÿ”ฅ Top 3: Most Sats 1. View quoted note โ†’ Sats Earned: 258k Zaps Received: 61 2. View quoted note โ†’ Sats Earned: 236k Zaps Received: 42 3. View quoted note โ†’ Sats Earned: 111k Zaps Received: 2 #most-zapped_nostr_recap
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#11 image 1. RSSNotes - v0.1.0 RSSNotes is a Nostr relay that works as an RSS-to-Nostr bridge, creating Nostr profiles and notes from RSS feeds. In v0.1.0, the release introduces a rewritten dark-mode GUI, adds a Public/Private option when publishing notes, and moves the database and QR codes to Docker volumes for better persistence. Contributed by: trinidz Source: #relays_nostr_recap
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#13 image 1. Buzz Desktop - v0.5.8 Buzz is a workspace where humans and AI agents build together on a relay you own. This release unifies the agent-adding workflow and improves agent task handoffs by separating the summarizerโ€™s reasoning budget while also adding a development infrastructure change to bind services to loopback. While this was the latest, there were also the releases of v0.5.7, v0.5.6, v0.5.5 & v0.5.4 last week. Contributed by: Wes, Tyler, Paweล‚ Karniej, Taylor Ho Source: #workspaces_nostr_recap
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#11 image 1. RSSNotes - v0.1.0 RSSNotes is a Nostr relay that works as an RSS-to-Nostr bridge, creating Nostr profiles and notes from RSS feeds. In v0.1.0, the release introduces a rewritten dark-mode GUI, adds a Public/Private option when publishing notes, and moves the database and QR codes to Docker volumes for better persistence. Contributed by: trinidz Source: #relays_nostr_recap
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#13 image 1. Buzz Desktop - v0.5.8 Buzz is a workspace where humans and AI agents build together on a relay you own. This release unifies the agent-adding workflow and improves agent task handoffs by separating the summarizerโ€™s reasoning budget while also adding a development infrastructure change to bind services to loopback. While this was the latest, there were also the releases of v0.5.7, v0.5.6, v0.5.5 & v0.5.4 last week. Contributed by: Wes, Tyler, Paweล‚ Karniej, Taylor Ho Source: #workspaces_nostr_recap
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#14 image 1. Lightning.Pub - v0.0.34 Lightning.Pub is a Nostr-native Lightning node that allows users to share their Lightning nodes through Nostr accounts and connect them with compatible web applications. This release focuses on security hardening and reliability, particularly around Lightning swaps, payments, and Nostr debits. It adds stronger verification of swap data before on-chain actions, improves swap settlement and replay protection, prevents incorrect automatic refunds for ambiguous payment failures, and strengthens debit frequency-limit enforcement. No API, configuration, or database changes are required. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v0.0.33 last week. Contributed by: @Justin (shocknet) โšก, boufni95 Source: 2. Routstr Core - v0.4.5-beta (Pre-release) Routstr Core is a FastAPI-based reverse proxy for OpenAI-compatible AI APIs with pay-per-request billing. This pre-release improves security and reliability with encrypted node secrets, enhanced provider routing and rate limiting, safer Cashu payments and refunds, wallet and payout fixes, improved billing and cost tracking, and database connection and session handling. Contributed by: 9qeklajc, @Jeroen Ubbink, @redshift Source: 3. Nostr VPN - v4.1.6 Nostr VPN is a Tailscale-style private mesh VPN that uses Nostr for coordination and a FIPS-backed data plane to create secure connections between devices. Version 4.1.6 improves reliability across platforms with better exit-node discovery and connection stability, improved VPN service startup and single-instance behavior, and a simpler device-joining process while retaining QR and manual joining options. There was also the release of v4.1.5 last week. Contributed by: @Sirius Source: #infrastructures_nostr_recap
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#4 image 1. Jack Dorsey's New App Is Coming for Slack and GitHub (buzz) 2. BitChat: Decentralized P2P Messenger (Full Deep Dive) 3. Bitchat - This Open Source Chat App Works Without Wi-Fi or Mobile Data 4. Buzz Beginner's Guide: An Open Source, Agent-First Slack? 5. Wtf is Nostr, the open protocol that Buzz is built on? 6. Building a Buzz AI Agent That Replies to Anyone 7. Can India Block BitChat? How Messaging Works Without Internet #education_nostr_recap
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#2 image 1. Whaaaaat? A new version of Divine? Letโ€™s explore ๐Ÿ˜ View quoted note โ†’ 2. This legendary nostrich is interested a lot about this workspace ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป View quoted note โ†’ 3. India invites centralization with deporting the decentralization ๐Ÿคฎ View quoted note โ†’ 4. This note would be so useful for you to get rid of Googleโ€™s snooping ๐Ÿซต๐Ÿป View quoted note โ†’ 5. An expensive photo worth hundreds of pounds ๐Ÿ˜‰ View quoted note โ†’ 6. Nostr is not dead ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป View quoted note โ†’ 7. A heartbreaking day for Satโ€™s oil family ๐Ÿ˜ข View quoted note โ†’ 8. This would be a nice try ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿป View quoted note โ†’ 9. This is ๐Ÿ’ฏ% true View quoted note โ†’ 10. Yeah, that's true ๐Ÿ’ฏ View quoted note โ†’ 11. Nostr is the goat of social media ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿป View quoted note โ†’ #community_nostr_recap
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#3 image Nostr is not growing fast and at a flat point at the moment. According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are over 240 Nostr clients and over 500 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe now. According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days): ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Primal iOS - 872 Users - 8.6k Notes ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Amethyst - 767 Users - 13.6k Notes ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Primal Android - 549 Users - 5.1k Notes Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists): ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป relay.momostr.pink - 313.0k Users ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป relay.damus.io - 249.0k Users ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป relay.primal.net - 213.0k Users According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/, ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Publishing Users last week: 6.39M (-16.5%) ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป New Publishing Users Last week: 4.82M (-27.4%) ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป All-time Zap Count: 6.97M ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป All-time Zap BTC Amount: 43.28 BTC ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป All-time Zap Senders: 179.8K According to https://npub.world/stats, During last week: ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป Total Users: 5,346 users, compared to 3,286 users the week before image Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, by @JeffG, by @Pip the WoT guy, and all the contributors of for providing these insights. #eco-growth_nostr-recap
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#4 image @jack 1. Buzz by Block: 1 Relay Replaces Slack, GitHub, and Your Glue Code 2. Block/Buzz Collaborative Workspace: How Signed Agent Identity Replaces Shared Tokens 3. Buzz (Fully Tested) + Free APIs : RIP OpenClaw, Hermes! THIS IS WAY BETTER! 4. The Twitter CEO Is Backโ€ฆ 5. Inside Buzz: The Relay Where Humans and AI Share a Cryptographic Workspace #education_nostr_recap
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#5 image 1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - August 2026 ๐Ÿ“… Date: Sunday, August 02, 2026 โฐ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT ๐Ÿ“ Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States ๐Ÿคนโ€โ™€๏ธ Organizers: @fractalchris ๐Ÿ”— Event: 2. Edufeed Community Call - August 2026 ๐Ÿ“… Date: Wednesday, August 05, 2026 โฐ Time: 10.30 AM - 11.30 AM GMT+2 ๐Ÿ“ Location: Online (https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/8476421102?pwd=NEpHeTZ1YjVVSE1WQVFNL3VpaFdHQT09#success) ๐Ÿคนโ€โ™€๏ธ Organizers: @Jรถrg Lohrer ๐Ÿ”— Event: 3. Munich Nostr Meetup (newbies & nerds welcome) - September 2026 ๐Ÿ“… Date: Thursday, September 17, 2026 โฐ Time: 10:00 PM - 2:00 AM (Event timezone not specified) ๐Ÿ“ Location: Munich ๐Ÿคนโ€โ™€๏ธ Organizers: Munich Nostr Meetup ๐Ÿ”— Event: #events_nostr_recap
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#9 image 1. Divine Mobile - 1.0.17 Divine Mobile is a decentralized short-form video app built on Nostr that brings back Vine-style looping videos with human-created content. In 1.0.17, the release adds a new Stop Motion camera and editor, improved video editing tools, duplicate drafts, stronger publishing reliability, and better offline support. It also includes various fixes for Nostr interactions, direct messages, media handling, security, and overall app stability. Contributed by: @rabble, @Daniel Cadenas, @Liz, matthew bradley, Alex Frei, Meylis, Toby Kohlhagen Source: 2. Earthly - v0.0.7 Earthly is a collaborative map editor built on Nostr that helps people turn local knowledge into useful, shared maps. In v0.0.7, the release added persistent Android sessions and fixed the Nostr dialog. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v0.0.6, v0.0.5, and v0.0.3 last week. Contributed by: Schlaus Kwab Source: 3. Amber - v6.3.0 Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that allows users to securely manage keys and approve Nostr event signing requests from other applications. In v6.3.0, the release improved multi-request approval handling, added support for Expert List and Expert Pack events, introduced privacy settings to disable logs and activity stats, improved Tor and relay handling, and fixed various UI, build, and translation issues. Contributed by: @greenart7c3 Source: 4. Nostur - v1.30.0 Nostur is a Nostr client for iOS that allows users to interact with the decentralized social protocol through mobile devices. In v1.30.0, the release added nested replies rendering, media sharing support, chat mention autocomplete, disappearing messages in DMs, improved media handling, video uploads, link previews, and fixed various issues across messaging, notifications, profiles, zaps, and live content. Contributed by: @Fabian Source: 5. Wisp - v1.2.1 Wisp is a minimal and performant Android client for the Nostr protocol, designed for a lightweight user experience. In v1.2.1, the release improves UI consistency with iOS-style timestamps, adds NIP-05 and follow badges, updates the app icon and splash screen experience, and fixes crashes caused by invalid image metadata dimensions in notes. Although this was the latest, there was also the release of v1.2.0 last week. Contributed by: @Dr. The Daniel ๐Ÿ––, @utxo the webmaster ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ Source: 6. Manent - v1.5.0 Manent is a private and encrypted space for storing notes and files, built on Nostr. In v1.5.0, the release introduces a new dark mode experience and includes minor improvements and fixes to enhance the overall user experience. Contributed by: @daniele Source: 7. Nostrord - v2.4.0 Nostrord is a Nostr NIP-29 client for interacting with decentralized groups and communities. In v2.4.0, the release adds Google/pomegranate login support for desktop and Android, introduces pronounceable autogenerated group IDs, improves connection reliability by fixing reconnect and socket issues, and adds NIP-29 subgroups as Discord-style channels for better community organization. Contributed by: @Anjhc Source: 8. Dark Wisp - v1.2.1 Dark Wisp is a minimal and performant Android client for the Nostr protocol, focused on providing a lightweight user experience. In v1.2.1, the release introduces new branding with a dark-wisp launcher icon and welcome screen updates, adds collapsible reply threads with improved UI polish, and fixes crashes caused by invalid blurhash image dimensions. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v1.2.0 last week. Contributed by: @Dr. The Daniel ๐Ÿ––, @utxo the webmaster ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ Source: 9. NoorNote - v1.3.0 NoorNote is a client for Nostr, providing a modern experience for browsing, messaging, and interacting with Nostr content. In v1.3.0, the release adds NIP-53 live activity cards across feeds and notifications, introduces NIP-68 image tagging, adds soft mute controls through NIP-78, improves messaging and zap interactions, and enhances relay insights and wallet reliability. Contributed by: @alp Source: 10. Sidecar - v1.5.1 Sidecar is a NIP-07 Nostr signing extension that runs in your browser's side panel, providing secure key management and signing for Nostr applications. In v1.5.1, the update adds a timed auto-sign mode for trusted sites, a pinned Lightning wallet balance bar with NIP-47 notifications, and various UI improvements for readability, wallet interactions, and signing flows. This was the latest of the week, and there was also v1.5.0 last week. Contributed by: @Dr. The Daniel ๐Ÿ–– Source: #tools_nostr_recap
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#10 image 1. Zapstore - 1.1.1 Zapstore is an open Android app store built on Nostr, allowing developers to publish apps directly while enabling community-driven discovery and curation. This release updated the welcome copy on the search screen and store listing metadata while fixing repeated device-key backup decryption during Amber session restore, trust dialog hangs when a publisher has no kind-0 profile, and the paused download button state. Contributed by: @franzap Source: 2. ZSP - 0.4.14 ZSP is a fast CLI tool for publishing Android apps to Nostr relays and is used by Zapstore for app distribution. This release fixed app name and icon extraction issues, improved GitLab download path parsing, added Fastlane as a metadata source, introduced Tor fallback with retries for failed requests, and added default image compression. Contributed by: @franzap Source: #dev-tools_nostr_recap
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#12 image 1. Angor - 0.2.34 (Unstable release) Angor is a decentralized peer-to-peer funding protocol (in alpha stage) built on Bitcoin and Nostr that enables users to create and participate in decentralized investment projects. This unstable release fixed recovery scan crashes, improved spend scanning, added shared investment fee estimation and Nostr investment synchronization between the web app and desktop, improved parallel investment scanning, and fixed several UI issues including Android crashes and mobile navigation inconsistencies. This was the latest release of the week and was also another one, that was 0.2.33. Contributed by: @dangershony, Zaza Source: #protocols_nostr_recap
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#13 image 1. Buzz - v0.4.26 Buzz is a workspace where humans and agents collaborate together on a relay you own, built around decentralized infrastructure. In v0.4.26, the release improves mobile pairing QR code presentation, refines community management flows, updates documentation, and adds clearer setup guidance for macOS local network access and CLI runtime configuration. This was the latest, and there were also a lot more releases last week. Contributed by: Wes, klopez4212 Source: 2. Pyramid - v1.3.1 Pyramid is a community-building platform for Nostr that helps users create and manage vibrant communities through a hierarchical relay system. In v1.3.1, the release fixes an issue where event statistics were incorrectly displayed for non-members who did not have any events, improving the accuracy of community data. Contributed by: @fiatjaf Source: #workspaces_nostr_recap
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