🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (30th March 2026 - 69th Edition)

The 69th edition of your weekly Nostr newsletter.
🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀
(30th March 2026 - 69th Edition)

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@Ivan

“Good morning, Nostr. I open X and it’s “Iran war” this, “Iran war” that. I open Nostr and it’s like, “Check this out, Nsite,” “I built this game on Nsite,” Nostr polls, and just excitement about cool shit. Nostr is a better vibe.”

@corndalorian

“Idk who needs to hear this, but “likes” are worthless on Nostr.”


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1. Nice to see that a lot of plebs love music 😍

ivylumi
Mar 26, 2026 04:05

We made it… and went beyond the goal💥

All packages are now on their way, so keep an eye on your mailbox 👀

Huge thank you to everyone who supported — through sats, kind words, on Nostr and beyond.

Shoutout to @b6dcd...e5ee7 for making this possible⚡️ and, once again, special thanks to @00000...39a7f and @1745d...12d39 for the incredible support with purchase of the LOVE IS THE CURE Artifact Set including all 6 pins and a signed CD!

100% of the proceeds go to exploring the magic of music 🎶
More songs coming soon.

Love is the cure✨
https://blossom.primal.net/31daf1f24bc5b660b6db76a4cfa578b8dd048da0e1ffe5f62d299e032a897d5e.mov

2. Leeeeeeeets Gooooooo! 🤛🏻

BTCsessions
Mar 25, 2026 15:24

Hey everyone! I’m teaching 100 human rights activists about the power of Nostr! Can you please show them what zaps are? LET’S GO.

3. Keep this in mind for your success 👇🏻

calle 💯
Mar 23, 2026 00:09

“Do not use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think and to grow.”

4. This selection would be so healing 😇

Jeff Booth
Mar 28, 2026 13:49

We either control or thoughts or we do not. In a system trying to control you by keeping you in fear and chaos, choose gratitude and love!

5. Respect to this decision 🫡

lyuda_kozlovska
Mar 26, 2026 13:42

European Parliament has just rejected the Chat Control proposal again! 🫶🚀

Your voice always matters! Stay ready and keep standing up for your rights!🫶

As a follow-up, ask your MEP to investigate: 📌 Why are EPP MEPs following the agenda and timelines set by Google, Meta, TikTok, and other big platforms, instead of defending the fundamental rights of EU citizens?

📌 On what legal and political basis was this vote reopened, and who requested it — was it driven by the public interest or corporate lobbying? Ask EPP’s MEPs to show their proposal publicly!

📌 If this vote can be reopened once, does that mean it can be reopened again whenever the outcome pleases powerful actors — but not when citizens and civil society are dissatisfied with the result?

6. Let’s suggest a way for him to celebrate 🥳

totallyhumanwriter
Mar 27, 2026 22:53

I DELETED FACEBOOK AFTER 20 YEARS OF USE.

How should I celebrate?

#asknostr

7. The selection is yours and the result will be according to your decision 👈🏻

Achilles
Mar 24, 2026 05:53

GM nostr 🤙🏼💜

If you want to believe the world is terrible just watch the news.

If you want to believe the world is incredible…

step into nature.

The world reflects where you place your attention.

If you feed fear you’ll see chaos.

Feed presence & see beauty.

Same world but different lens.

Chose & enjoy a grateful day today🧡🫂

Timestamp of freedom 941962

8. This is how the centralization controls your life without you knowing 😢

Derek Ross
Mar 23, 2026 19:28

back during the covid times, when many of us were forced to work from home, my wife was forced to work from home too, and during nice days, she would sit outside and work on our back deck. we would do this together.

her boss lived in our neighborhood at the time. one day, her boss went for a walk over her lunch break. when she walked past our house, she heard my wife talking on the phone. (katie always talks loud when wearing a headset and we live in a quiet neighborhood. you probably wouldn’t have been able to understand what she was saying from the road, but you would have heard someone talking and been able to tell it was her.)

the next day my wife was reprimanded for working outside as “not everyone in the company had the ability to sit outside” and this was “not a vacation”. the company made people work remotely, but they dictated where employees could sit and work?

c’mon.

actual clown world.

anyways… i just randomly thought of that as i sit inside today wishing the weather was warmer like it was over the weekend so i can begin working outside on my deck again.

9. A nice opportunity for the right person 😉

Jor
Mar 28, 2026 14:07

I am looking for someone to help me with a project to help grow nostr

Requirements: ~10 hours per week ~Experience editing and posting short videos and photos ~Experience managing a social media account ~Fun to talk with and be around

Results-based pay structure in either fiat or Bitcoin (there are no limits on how much you make)

A perfect side hustle for someone who’s still working a job but has some extra time

If you’re interested in setting up a call to discuss the project and role, email 88sats@proton.me

🫡

10. A popular lady nostrich celebrated her birthday 🎂

11. This is awesome 🤩

12. They won’t harm us as long as we don’t harm them 🐍

HelenYrmom
Mar 26, 2026 16:06

GM Nostr

Spotted on my trail run this morning.👀

👑🐍

13. She has left all social media except Nostr 😍

grrrly
Mar 27, 2026 08:40

It’s been a while, but here I am , back here again. Finally deleted all social media profiles and apps. They really don’t want to let you go, not effective for another 30 days 🤣

Other than not really knowing where to begin, I figured I’d enroll in the Saylor University Specialization in Bitcoin Economics. I have a few close friends who have never been pushy about it but have encouraged me to start my own journey. If you read this and have suggestions to add to my list of materials to educate myself please share.

#nostr #newhere #introduction #bitcoin #

14. He has realized it 🤘🏻

Ivan
Mar 26, 2026 11:30

Good morning, Nostr. I open X and it’s “Iran war” this, “Iran war” that. I open Nostr and it’s like, “Check this out, Nsite,” “I built this game on Nsite,” Nostr polls, and just excitement about cool shit. Nostr is a better vibe.

15. This is so true! 👇🏻

corndalorian
Mar 27, 2026 13:11

Idk who needs to hear this, but “likes” are worthless on Nostr.

16. Let’s help for the preview process 💻

utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻
Mar 27, 2026 15:16

I am inviting 10 #wisp users to preview the new nostr band and help me test it and polish it up

If interested, please dm me

I’ll know you’re a wisp user because the dm will actually arrive


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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://nostrarchives.com/analytics,

Top 3 Popular Clients:

👉🏻 Primal web - 682 Users

👉🏻 Nostur - 522 Users

👉🏻 Yakihonne - 461 Users

Top 3 Popular Relays:

👉🏻 http://relay.damus.io/ - 185.1K Users

👉🏻 http://relay.momostr.pink/ - 173.3K Users

👉🏻 http://relay.primal.net/ - 153.4K

According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,

👉🏻 Publishing users last week : 352.0K (+35.2%)

👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week : 519.4K (+126.7%)

👉🏻 All-time Zap Count : 6.64M

👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount : 42.29 BTC

👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders : 174.3K

According to https://npub.world/stats,

During last week:

👉🏻 Total Users: 4,534, compared to 3,369 users the week before

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Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by @JeffG https://npub.world/stats by @pip and all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr for providing these insights.


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1. The Psychology of Zaps

2. SIW on NOSTR: NOSTR Explained

image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XaWJoim1HQ


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1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - April 2026

📅 Date: Sunday, April 05, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @fractalchris

🔗 Event: image https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyjcgbhb/

2. Nostr: Introducing Renaud Lifchiz

📅 Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2026 ⏰ Time: 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM GMT+2 📍 Location: Chez Ginette, 101 Rue Caulaincourt, 75018 Paris, France

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @cluborange

🔗 Event: image https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzqejwqu87yhnkmh8054yjnsx7gtk26zqspy6s0cjdu33zqagumda2qqvrvwtrxyukxdmrxvenvvesx5ukvveexfskzc3k8ynqy4f2

3. NosVegas 2026 - April 2026

📅 Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2026 ⏰ Time: 7.00 PM - 1.00 AM PDT 📍 Location: We All Scream Night Club, 517 Fremont St, Las Vegas, NV 89101, United States

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @Derek Ross

🔗 Event: image https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzq0mhp4ja8fmy48zuk5p6uy37vtk8tx9dqdwcxm32sy8nsaa8gkeyqqwkummnwejkwctn95erqv3k95cnwden8yenxvp4x5mnqd3dxq06jlj6


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1. BitTasker: the Decentralized Workforce

@BitTasker

image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmoied63ayc

2. Can Content Creators Bypass Gatekeepers With This New Technology?

@Constant

image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbMiPyrr4Oc

3. Radio Detox with M.K. Fain: The Internet You Actually Want Radio Detox 8 subscribers Subscribe

@heatherlarson @MK Fain

image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn3znrP1Elo

4. Soapbox Sessions Episode 30: There Are Now Two Internets

image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkDqi_rRBS0

5. What if the platforms disappeared? Nostr, artists, and a decentralized future

image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwi0ikRldEU


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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/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing the creators who received/sent the most engagement:

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

  1. Name: @Bugle_News

    • Zaps Received: 521
    • Sats Earned: 1M
  2. Name: @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻

    • Zaps Received: 345
    • Sats Earned: 270k
  3. Name: @flash

    • Zaps Received: 286
    • Sats Earned: 11k

🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers

  1. Name: @aqstr

    • Zaps Sent: 1724
    • Sats Spent: 89k
  2. Name: @BitBees

    • Zaps Sent: 147
    • Sats Spent: 3k
  3. Name: @FLjustin

    • Zaps Sent: 143
    • Sats Spent: 104k

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received

  1. Name: @Deleted Account

    • Sats Earned: 5M
    • Zaps Received: 6
  2. Name: @Bugle_News

    • Sats Earned: 1M
    • Zaps Received: 521
  3. Name: @Sovereign Engineering

    • Sats Earned: 610k
    • Zaps Received: 5

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent

  1. Name: @Elitefashionboutique

    • Sats Spent: 5M
    • Zaps Sent: 6
  2. Name: @Tom

    • Sats Spent: k (Not showing the exact sats amount)
    • Zaps Sent: 1
  3. Name: @MAV21

    • Sats Spent: 171k
    • Zaps Sent: 14

Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement:

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

  1. BTCsessions
    Mar 25, 2026 15:24

    Hey everyone! I’m teaching 100 human rights activists about the power of Nostr! Can you please show them what zaps are? LET’S GO.

    • Zaps Received: 142
    • Sats Earned: 128k
    • Zaps Received: 38
    • Sats Earned: 3k
  2. ODELL
    Mar 27, 2026 21:00

    we still need to free samourai

    • Zaps Received: 52
    • Sats Earned: 4k

🔥 Top 3: Most Sats

  1. BTCsessions
    Mar 25, 2026 15:24

    Hey everyone! I’m teaching 100 human rights activists about the power of Nostr! Can you please show them what zaps are? LET’S GO.

    • Sats Earned: 128k
    • Zaps Received: 142
  2. Referenced event not yet available nevent1qvzqq…2qy5f7qn

    • Sats Earned: 32k
    • Zaps Received: 1
    • Sats Earned: 24k
    • Zaps Received: 17

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  1. corndalorian
    Mar 27, 2026 19:36

    🤘😂🤘

  2. corndalorian
    Mar 26, 2026 23:52

    Nostr is good for your health

  3. Referenced event not yet available nevent1qvzqq…rsdqhjhc

  4. corndalorian
    Mar 27, 2026 12:32

  5. corndalorian
    Mar 25, 2026 19:47

  6. corndalorian
    Mar 24, 2026 15:08

  7. corndalorian
    Mar 24, 2026 00:21

  8. bryan
    Mar 25, 2026 19:47

    I am going to spend more time on NOSTR. X is simply depressing.


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1. Flora - v0.3.0 - New Tool

Flora is a Chrome extension for decentralized screen recording and sharing on Nostr. This release introduces private encrypted video sharing with public, unlisted, and private modes, including AES-256-GCM encryption and NIP-17-based secure delivery, alongside recipient selection, DM relay checks, and improved sharing UX.

Developed by: @shawn

2. White Noise - v2026.3.23

White Noise is a secure, private, and decentralized chat app built on Nostr and the Marmot protocol with MLS-based encryption. This release focuses on major relay system improvements to reduce connection overload, stabilize message delivery, and optimize login performance, especially for large accounts. It also introduces NIP-C7 reply threading, better handling of deleted messages, real-time metadata updates, in-app bug reporting and support chat, improved error handling, and significant UI/UX refinements, alongside numerous performance optimizations and backend enhancements.

Contributed by: @pepi @Danny @JeffG @mmfa…xvtp @nikitawvi

3. Amethyst - v1.06.0: Polls, Wallets, New Media Player, etc

Amethyst is a Nostr client for Android. This release adds polls (NIP-85), wallets (NIP-47), calendar (NIP-52), code snippets (NIP-C0), PayTo (NIP-A3), Blossom URIs, long-form posts, voice messages, and basic chess support. It improves DMs, push notifications, media playback, relay management, search, and profiles, adds encrypted uploads, and enhances UI/UX with Material 3 updates. Desktop and Quartz gains NIP-45/NIP-42 relays, NIP-46 Bunker login, multi-column layouts, and QR signer pairing, alongside performance, accessibility, and translation improvements. This was the biggest release, and there were 3 more releases of the week. (v1.06.1, v1.06.2, v1.06.3)

Contributed by: hypnotichemionus4, @greenart7c3 @⚡ Dee Kay ⚡🇸🇪🇬🇧🇨🇿🇧🇷🇦🇹 @kojira @daniel @KotlinGeek @beefenergy @summoner @Anthony 🇫🇷 @Polak @राज @StellarStoic @3qtw…x23t @⚡₿it₿y₿it⚡

4. Amber - v5.0.4

Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android. The v5.0.4 release improves offline mode by disabling services, Tor, and notifications, fixes connection and encryption issues, adds a 30-second timeout for profile subscriptions, enhances performance when handling multiple requests, and resolves UI bugs with connect screen tabs, alt tags, and QR code accept/reject buttons. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of v5.0.3 and v5.0.2 last week.

Contributed by: @greenart7c3

5. Mostro - v0.17.1

Mostro is a production-ready, censorship-resistant, non-custodial Lightning Network P2P exchange built on Nostr. This release adds Nostr-based exchange rate publishing, includes the Mostro pubkey in order events, removes database encryption, updates default routing fee settings, improves testing coverage for event emissions, and refines GitHub workflows and documentation.

Contributed by: Zakir Jiwani, codaMW, @qqqq…rfkq @Pinball Wizard

6. Aegis - v0.4.0

Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr signer supporting multiple connection methods. This release adds selectable authorization modes, improves the language picker with native language names, and fixes various QR scanning and UI bugs.

Contributed by: Zzzz

7. Comet - alpha-0eb7eb5

Comet is a note-taking app for Nostr. This release refines the app’s architecture with a hexagonal restructuring, moves the editor and other modules into feature-specific layers, adds numerous unit tests, improves CI and type compatibility, refreshes the relay allowlist, fixes ESLint and typecheck issues, and enhances the build and deployment pipeline for more reliable web releases. This was the biggest release, and there were also a lot more releases last week.

Contributed by: Christian Chiarulli

8. Primal Android App - 3.0.17

Primal Android app is the Android app of Primal Nostr client. This release adds deep-linking via primalconnect://, improves wallet exports and transaction handling, updates poll and zap display logic, migrates to ZXing for scanning on AOSP, fixes clipboard, feed paging, and UI issues, enhances LN invoice creation, and improves transaction animations and dev tools for better wallet visibility.

Contributed by: Aleksandar Ilic

9. Nymchat - v3.56.256

Nymchat is a lightweight ephemeral Nostr chat client with Bitchat bridging. This release includes hotfixes for double-sanitized mention modals and restrictions on special characters in channel names. This was the latest release, and there were a whole bunch more releases last week.

Contributed by: @Luxas

10. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.2.2

Mostro Mobile Client is the secure mobile app for Mostro P2P Bitcoin trading platform. This release adds German language support and NIP-13 proof-of-work for events, and fixes background service startup, chat history loss after reconnect, and image rendering in P2P messages.

Contributed by: Andrea Diaz, @Aldo Barazutti @catr…euhz

11. Wisp - v0.15.5-beta

Wisp is a minimal, performant Android client for the Nostr protocol. This release adds support for connecting to local relays, includes related translation updates, and introduces minor version and maintenance changes. This was the latest release, and there were a lot more releases last week.

Contributed by: @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻

12. Yakihonne Mobile App - 2.0.3

YakiHonne mobile app is a decentralized mobile client built on the Nostr protocol, offering a privacy-focused and censorship-resistant social experience. This release introduces relay reviews and join requests, expanded nested replies, auto-translation for notes, NWC multi-relay support, and improvements to paid notes and dashboards, along with multiple bug fixes, performance enhancements, and UI improvements.

Contributed by: Boukhalfa Seddik


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1. Nuxtstack - New Developer Tool

Nuxtstack is a rapid application development (RAD) framework built on Nuxt and Vue, using only JavaScript and no React or TypeScript involved. Inspired by MKStack, it serves as a boilerplate and starter template optimized for fast prototyping and AI-assisted workflows with agents like Goose or Claude Desktop. Nuxtstack is designed to help developers quickly build Nostr-based apps and websites in minutes, streamlining the development process with a focus on simplicity, speed, and AI integration.

Developed by: @Sebastix

2. Routstr - v0.4.2

Routstr is a decentralized protocol for private, permissionless AI inference using Nostr for discovery and Cashu for payments. The v0.4.2 release improves payment handling and enforcement, enhances child key management, fixes balance, refund, and migration issues, adds better model visibility and routing, and includes UI, analytics, and documentation updates for improved reliability and usability.

Contributed by: shroominic, Evan, 9qeklajc, @redshift


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No Relay Updates and Release for last week.


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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-Ninth Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.


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Thank you @Jurjen de Vries for this amazing idea!

A big shoutout to @rabble for his generous patronage for my Nostr Recaps!

Thank you, my younger brother @samalka for helping me with the content and making graphic stuff for my Nostr Recaps!

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