Personalized NIP-85 is impossible to scale. Assume there are 10M nostr pubkeys, and the service provider has just 1000 users. The service provider has to publish 1000 * 10M = 10B Nostr events, AND KEEP THEM UPDATED OVER TIME.

For the first time since September 2025, which is when I started recording, and probably from the beginning of the protocol history, Nostr just surpassed 20k reputable daily active users. We are gonna meme the first cryptographic sovereign network into existence 🫡

Hey @Gigi, I just used ants and logged in. For one search I was asked 20 times to sign the kind 5315 Search Profiles. Maybe, just maybe you are wasting some vertex credits there 😅

NIP-50 is bad because it returns nostr events instead of metadata about the events. Imagine Google not displaying search results (link, summary...), but the entire websites, in order.

As many others, @M✨️ sadly leaked his nsec, losing his prior profile @Deleted. Years on Nostr gone. 8k followers gone. Or maybe not? You see, Mickey did something smart. He made his old account follow only his new one. In this way, despite him having now only 135 followers, the old acquired reputation "flows" to his new account. Because npub.world uses Pagerank, it's able to capture this signal and that's why Mickey ranks #1 in search results. This would not be the case if it were using naively follower counts, or distance. In a way, the social "key rotation" is working out in real time, and you can help it by following @M✨️.

@Vertex now supports NIP-50 search for profiles. Add wss://relay.vertexlab.io to your relays, and enjoy the fastest and most accurate search in Nostr. Yes, it's all free.

"And slowing the fuck down and suffering some friction is what allows you to learn and grow."

Thoughts on slowing the fuck down

Thoughts on slowing the fuck down

Nostr has doubled its DAU since Mar 13 2026. Two weeks. How did it do that? Optical illusion. 😝 npub.world shows this increase because I've made significant improvements to the relay pool, which now supports: - the dynamic addition of new relays as they are discovered from relay lists - automatic replaying of subscriptions when closed - automatic relay reconnections with backoff This is the kind of unsexy work that no one cares about except us autists who care if a job is well done.