🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (16th February 2026 - 63rd Edition)
- “Just deleted the YouTube app.
- Officially off of all the centralized mind controlled algorithms.
- I am free ⚡️”
- “I’m humbled to play even a small part in this movement, especially here on Nostr. It’s a special place, and what an incredible time to be alive and witness what we are all collectively building and moving through together.”
- “So much gratitude to be a part of this space and know that every ‘competitive’ idea to provide value is fundamentally cooperation on a global scale.”
- 1. The First look of the Science Fiction is for us 😍
- 2. Another release from Zapstore for us 👇🏻
- 3. Great news from Azzamo Blossom 😍
- 4. Centralization is gonna die 👇🏻
- 5. This pleb has wasted a lot of time 😮
- 6. Everything has a bright side and a dark side as well 👈🏻
- 7. Yep, we see it. Awesome! 👌🏻
- 8. A very responsible Nostrich Father 👨🏻
- 9. Efrat Fenigson’s signal was broadcast to the world via “Outsiders” show 🌏
- 10. A Nostrich celebrated his birthday with a positive and humble heart 🥳
- 11. Do you think Nostr is dead? 🤔
- 12. Some popular Nostriches are enjoying 🏊🏻♂️
- 13. This pleb is so glad on Nostr 😊
- 14. We should attract this kind of plebs again to Nostr 👇🏻
- 15. This is the way if you want to get into freedom 🫵🏻
- According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,
- 👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 353.8K (-40.6%) (This data is for Feb 2)
- 👉🏻 New Users Last week : 145.6K (-63.8%)
- 👉🏻 All-time Zap Count : 6.49M
- 👉🏻 All-time Sats Amount : 41.91 BTC
- 👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders : 170.8K
- According to https://npub.world/stats,
- During last week:
- 👉🏻 Total Users: 2,180, compared to 2,913 users the week before
- 1. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 76: Destaques
- 2. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 77: API de Gerenciamento de Relay
- 3. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 78: Descobribilidade de Ecash Mints
- 4. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 79: Enquetes Polls
- 5. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 80: Manipuladores de Aplicações Recomendadas
- 6. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 81: Máquina de Venda de Dados (Data Vending Machine)
- 7. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 82: Anexos de Mídia (Media Attachments)
- 8. Présentation de Nostr, le réseau qui vous appartient
- 1. Nostr Atlanta #10 - Lunch & Learn - Decentralized Web Tech - February 2026
- 2. Nostr live talk radio - February 2026
- 3. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - March 2026
- 1. [FOSDEM 2026] POSSE content with Drupal using Nostr
- 2. Why Nostr Exists
- 3. Nostr Escapando del control digital
- 4. Soapbox Sessions Episode 24: Nerds At The Pub
- 5. SHAKESPEARE DIRECT
- Here are the Top Zapped/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing creators who received/sent the most engagement:
- 🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
- 🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
- 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
- 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
- 🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
- 🔥 Top 3: Most Sats
- 1. Zapstore - 1.0.0
- 2. Amber - v4.1.2
- 3. Mostro - v0.16.2
- 4. Aegis - v0.3.8
- 5. Flotilla - 1.6.4
- 6. Shosho - v0.12.0
- 7. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.1.1+1
- 8. Ridestr - v0.2.5
- 1. CUDA Vanity Nostr npub Generator - New Developer Tool
- 2. Granary - v10.0
- 3. SNSTR (Secure Nostr Software Toolkit for Renegades) - v0.3.1
- 4. Nostr MCP Server - v3.0.0
- 1. Citrine - v2.0.0-pre1
- 2. Haven - v1.2.0-rc2
“Just deleted the YouTube app.
Officially off of all the centralized mind controlled algorithms.
I am free ⚡️”
“I’m humbled to play even a small part in this movement, especially here on Nostr. It’s a special place, and what an incredible time to be alive and witness what we are all collectively building and moving through together.”
“So much gratitude to be a part of this space and know that every ‘competitive’ idea to provide value is fundamentally cooperation on a global scale.”
1. The First look of the Science Fiction is for us 😍
Good evening.
A year and a half ago, Nostr spoke. And so I listened. Here’s the cover reveal for my upcoming sci fi thriller, The Stolguard Incident.
I’ll share more info over the following weeks, but in the meantime I wanted to make sure folks on Nostr got the first look.
2. Another release from Zapstore for us 👇🏻
3. Great news from Azzamo Blossom 😍
4. Centralization is gonna die 👇🏻
RIP Discord
5. This pleb has wasted a lot of time 😮
6. Everything has a bright side and a dark side as well 👈🏻
7. Yep, we see it. Awesome! 👌🏻
8. A very responsible Nostrich Father 👨🏻
9. Efrat Fenigson’s signal was broadcast to the world via “Outsiders” show 🌏
10. A Nostrich celebrated his birthday with a positive and humble heart 🥳
11. Do you think Nostr is dead? 🤔
12. Some popular Nostriches are enjoying 🏊🏻♂️
13. This pleb is so glad on Nostr 😊
14. We should attract this kind of plebs again to Nostr 👇🏻
15. This is the way if you want to get into freedom 🫵🏻
Nostr is growing fast!
According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are now over 140 Nostr clients and over 450 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe.
According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,
👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 353.8K (-40.6%) (This data is for Feb 2)
👉🏻 New Users Last week : 145.6K (-63.8%)
👉🏻 All-time Zap Count : 6.49M
👉🏻 All-time Sats Amount : 41.91 BTC
👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders : 170.8K
According to https://npub.world/stats,
During last week:
👉🏻 Total Users: 2,180, compared to 2,913 users the week before
Many thanks to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by @JeffG https://npub.world/stats by @pip and @franzap and all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr for providing these insights.
1. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 76: Destaques
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40OJTPuNd7o
2. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 77: API de Gerenciamento de Relay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqtyuGnFRU0
3. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 78: Descobribilidade de Ecash Mints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xSUQHxq23c
4. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 79: Enquetes Polls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8S8fLY_ceU
5. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 80: Manipuladores de Aplicações Recomendadas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s29Uhnls5k
6. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 81: Máquina de Venda de Dados (Data Vending Machine)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-iIBHqE9TE
7. Aprendendo sobre o Nostr – Episódio 82: Anexos de Mídia (Media Attachments)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuCfHHMXy4U
8. Présentation de Nostr, le réseau qui vous appartient
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHWlfBNBUbw
1. Nostr Atlanta #10 - Lunch & Learn - Decentralized Web Tech - February 2026
📅 Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 2.00 PM EST 📍 Location: 684 John Wesley Dobbs Ave NE suite a1, Atlanta, GA, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers: @cluborange
2. Nostr live talk radio - February 2026
📅 Date: Saturday, February 21, 2026 ⏰ Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM GMT 📍 Location: https://cornychat.com/nostrradio (Online)
🤹♀️ Organizers: @c0rn…tlvg
3. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - March 2026
📅 Date: Sunday, March 1, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MST 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers: @fractalchris
🔗 Event:
https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyjcfbcb/
1. [FOSDEM 2026] POSSE content with Drupal using Nostr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jmk_13jLiM
2. Why Nostr Exists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N3HNKXsvrE
3. Nostr Escapando del control digital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwn1MrCUAdo
4. Soapbox Sessions Episode 24: Nerds At The Pub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZLyl7MiFwM
5. SHAKESPEARE DIRECT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSmTxbpIiJ4
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/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing creators who received/sent the most engagement:
🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
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Name: @flash
- Zaps Received: 517
- Sats Earned: 37k
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Name: @HODL
- Zaps Received: 238
- Sats Earned: 20k
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Name: @LynAlden
- Zaps Received: 209
- Sats Earned: 48k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
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Name: @aqstr
- Zaps Sent: 2298
- Sats Spent: 104k
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Name: @FLjustin
- Zaps Sent: 184
- Sats Spent: 26k
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Name: @PaulAllen
- Zaps Sent: 140
- Sats Spent: 1k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
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Name: @fountainboostbot
- Sats Earned: 549k
- Zaps Received: 145
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Name: @Zapstore
- Sats Earned: 276k
- Zaps Received: 155
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Name: @RabbitHoleRecap
- Sats Earned: 202k
- Zaps Received: 25
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
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Name: wlp2s0
- Sats Spent: 177k
- Zaps Sent: 4
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Name: @aqstr
- Sats Spent: 104k
- Zaps Sent: 2300
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Name: @BitBetBot
- Sats Spent: 87k
- Zaps Sent: 44
Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement:
🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
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Good evening.
A year and a half ago, Nostr spoke. And so I listened. Here’s the cover reveal for my upcoming sci fi thriller, The Stolguard Incident.
I’ll share more info over the following weeks, but in the meantime I wanted to make sure folks on Nostr got the first look.
Referenced event not yet available nevent1qqsv6…hgwqvmz5- Zaps Received: 194
- Sats Earned: 55k
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- Zaps Received: 45
- Sats Earned: 8k
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- Zaps Received: 52
- Sats Earned: 29k
🔥 Top 3: Most Sats
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- Sats Earned: 96k
- Zaps Received: 14
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- Sats Earned: 50k
- Zaps Received: 3
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Sparrow v2.4.0 released with:
Send to silent payments hardware wallet support
Address display chunking
Wallet discovery for USB hardware wallets
Codex32 support
Trezor Safe 7, Ledger Nano Gen5,
Keycard and Keycard Shell supporthttps://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/2.4.0
https://sparrowwallet.com/download
- Sats Earned: 50k
- Zaps Received: 46
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When you tap a link on Nostr and it opens in your actual browser instead of that annoying in-app popup browser thing
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GM. Freshly picked. Still warm.
Zap Zide #Nostr #bitcoin #GM #coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr #zapzide
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GM. It’s a GM-off.
Zap Zide #Nostr #bitcoin #GM #coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr #zapzide
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GM. Success is a repost.
Zap Zide #Nostr #bitcoin #GM #coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr #zapzide
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1. Zapstore - 1.0.0
Zapstore is an open, Nostr-powered social app store that enables app discovery, distribution, and updates through a decentralized social network. This release is the first stable release, finalizing all release candidate changes with a major UX refresh, a new background updates system with batch tracking, improved App Stacks and relay controls, a rewritten install and package flow for better reliability, enhanced download performance and security, and broad stability improvements across core features.
Contributed by: @franzap
2. Amber - v4.1.2
Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that securely manages keys and signs events for Nostr applications. Version 4.1.2 focuses on maintenance and reliability improvements, including fixes for missing relay trust scores in some screens, improved security by using full UUIDs for bunker secrets, a migration from LiveData to Flow in the account model, dependency cleanup, Gradle plugin upgrades, better code organization, and a fix for JSON parsing errors in non-event encrypt/decrypt requests.
Contributed by: @greenart7c3
3. Mostro - v0.16.2
Mostro is a production-ready, censorship-resistant, non-custodial peer-to-peer exchange built on Nostr and the Lightning Network. This version focuses on stability and operational fixes, including improvements to dev fee handling to prevent duplicate or unnecessary Lightning queries, proper payment status checks, automatic dispute closure on cooperative cancellations, added rate limiting to a sensitive RPC endpoint, documentation and README updates (including client changes), and maintenance tasks such as a Rust toolchain upgrade. This was the latest release, and there was also the release of v0.16.1 last week.
Contributed by: @qqqq…rfkq @catr…euhz Mostronator
4. Aegis - v0.3.8
Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr signer that supports multiple connection methods for securely signing events. Version 0.3.8 adds multilingual settings and introduces an update mechanism for Nostr web apps, improving accessibility and ease of use across platforms.
Contributed by: @ZharlieW
5. Flotilla - 1.6.4
Flotilla is a Discord-like Nostr client that organizes relays as groups, providing real-time messaging and community features. This release improves the interface with cleaned-up modals, popovers, and notifications, adds push notifications via NIP-9a, optimizes relay synchronization, enhances error handling and activity pages, introduces wallet receive flow and classified listings, supports space URLs and safe area insets on mobile, fixes Safari image uploads and calendar details, and includes room muting and other usability refinements.
Contributed by: @jlrs…ynqn
6. Shosho - v0.12.0
Shosho is a mobile live-streaming app with Nostr integration that broadcasts via RTMP to zap.stream and announces streams to the Nostr network. Version 0.12.0 adds support for video Clips with in-player replies, custom emoji integration, thread protection to block indirect mention spam, QR profile sharing, improved streamer profiles, and a landscape playback experience similar to Twitch; it also updates the browse screen to feature creator clips and includes minor bug fixes.
Contributed by: @Rod
7. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.1.1+1
Mostro Mobile Client is a secure mobile app for accessing the Mostro peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform over Nostr. This release introduces major multi-node support with a trusted node registry, custom node management, metadata display, and automatic fallback, along with improved order creation through better validation, editable pricing controls, and expanded payment options; the release also enhances chat reliability with restore fixes, better error handling, and keyboard behavior, plus additional stability improvements such as pubkey normalization and metadata handling.
Contributed by: @Bracr10 @catr…euhz @qqqq…rfkq Andrea Diaz
8. Ridestr - v0.2.5
Ridestr is a decentralized ridesharing app built on Nostr that uses Cashu for payments. This version improves onboarding with a simplified one-tap wallet setup, a redesigned key backup screen, added branding in onboarding, and clearer payment requirements for drivers, along with bug fixes for incomplete logout cleanup and wallet setup failures due to connection issues. This is the latest release and there was also the release of “v0.2.4 - RoadFlare Edition, Hotfix 4” last week.
Contributed by: @VariableFate
1. CUDA Vanity Nostr npub Generator - New Developer Tool
CUDA Vanity Nostr npub Generator is a GPU-accelerated tool that uses NVIDIA CUDA to quickly generate Nostr keypairs and find public keys whose npub (Bech32-encoded public key) begins with a user-specified custom prefix or pattern. By leveraging parallel processing on the GPU, it significantly speeds up the search for personalized (vanity) Nostr identities compared to standard CPU-based methods.
Developed by: @Kieran
2. Granary - v10.0
Granary is a social web translation library that converts data between platforms like Nostr, Bluesky, ActivityPub, and others into a common format. This version introduces breaking changes, including switching Nostr’s default AS1 IDs from bech32 to hex, updating Bluesky and Pixelfed ID handling, and replacing or removing several legacy parameters, while adding expanded Nostr support (including NIP-27 mentions and article tags), Web Monetization for Bluesky, new AS1/HTML processing utilities, and a multiple output option across converters, along with numerous bug fixes, improved content handling, and overall protocol compatibility enhancements.
Contributed by: Ryan Barrett
3. SNSTR (Secure Nostr Software Toolkit for Renegades) - v0.3.1
SNSTR is a secure, lightweight TypeScript library for interacting with the Nostr protocol. This release adds a pack:verify guard to ensure all package entry points are included in the npm tarball, introduces a CI step to run this verification on Node and Bun, enforces a strict files whitelist for packaging only the necessary build outputs, and fixes issues preventing broken publishes that caused ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND for npm consumers. This was the latest release of the week, and there was also the v0.3.0.
Contributed by: @bitcoinplebdev
4. Nostr MCP Server - v3.0.0
Nostr MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI agents to interact with the Nostr network. This release adds comprehensive tooling for generic event management, social actions (follows, reactions, reposts, replies), relay list management (NIP-65 with optional NIP-42 authentication), and direct messaging support for NIP-04 and NIP-44/17, along with pagination for event queries and expanded test coverage; it also updates dependencies, unifies key handling and shared logic, improves event selection and authentication reliability, and removes an accidentally committed local config file.
Contributed by: @bitcoinplebdev
1. Citrine - v2.0.0-pre1
Citrine is a Nostr relay for Android that stores and serves events to clients on the network. This release improves performance through optimized database indexes and queries, better Kotlin coroutine handling, enhanced support for hosting web apps with each app running on its own port, a refreshed events screen interface, and updated dependencies.
Contributed by: @greenart7c3
2. Haven - v1.2.0-rc2
HAVEN is a high-availability personal Nostr relay designed for securely storing and backing up sensitive events such as private messages, eCash, and drafts. This release adds cloud backup capabilities with new –to-cloud and –from-cloud flags for uploading and restoring data, removes deprecated AWS and GCP backup providers, refactors cloud storage into a dedicated internal package, and includes documentation improvements for GPG verification. This was the latest release of the week, and there was also the release of v1.2.0-rc1 last week.
Contributed by: @Anthony Accioly
Nostr is built by the plebs, for the plebs. If you found this recap helpful, consider supporting me, Nomishka, with a zap.
I’m committed to supporting Nostr, and I split a part of the zaps I receive for this note with the plebs mentioned in this recap for all their great effort. Thank you so much for being part of this journey. Let me know your thoughts about this Sixty Third Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.
Thank you @Jurjen de Vries for this amazing idea!
A big shoutout to @rabble for his generous patronage!
Thank you, my younger brother @samalka for helping me with making the graphic stuff for this recap!
Recap by @Nomishka
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