• 🧠 Quote of the Week
  • “Nostr is the final destination for your content.
  • Owned by you, viewable in many apps, monetizable, & censorship resistant.
  • This will become more obvious over time”
• 🔥 Community Highlights
  • 1. This time Rabble invited to Harper for Revolution.social
  • 2. He didn’t forget to thank us too
  • 3. This is the truth about Nostr
  • 4. Nostr series #8 by Hodl
  • 5. There is a concern to think twice in this statement
  • 6. Do you agree with this?
  • 7. You also feel Nostr like this?
  • 8. Let’s see why his Nostr experience is better these days
  • 9. Just wakeup on Yakihonne plebs
  • 10. She celebrates 3k with quality over quantity on Nostr
  • 11. These frustrations should be solved on Nostr
• 🌱 Ecosystem Growth
  • Nostr is growing fast!
  • According to https://npub.world/stats,
  • During last week:
  • - Total Users: 2,580, compared to 2,552 zaps the week before
  • According to https://stats.nostr.band,
  • During last week:
  • - Total zaps: 40,668, compared to 37,499 zaps the week before
  • - Total zap senders: 2,668, compared to 2,847 plebs the week before
  • - Total zap amount: 8,246,204, compared to 6,831,789 sats the week before
  • - Total events: 2,764,277, compared to 2,654,882 events the week before
• 🎓 Educational Guides
  • 1. How to easily sync your Twitter to Nostr
• 📅 Upcoming Events
  • 1. Nostrclass by Aza - Bitplebs summit - October 2025
  • 2. Nostr Vancouver meetup - October 2025
  • 3. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - November 2025
  • 4. Nostrshire - November 2025
  • 5. Nostrasia - November 2025
• 📰 Nostr in the Media
  • 1. First-ever Nostr World Unconference in Uvita, Costa Rica in 2023 : Q&A session
  • 2. What’s Nostr’s Biggest Allure?
  • 3. NOSTR Social Media Explained: Decentralized Future with Bitcoin & Free Speech
  • 4. What is NOSTR? Decentralized Identity & Rewards
• ⚡ Most Zapped Last Week
  • 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
    • Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement:
  • 🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
  • 🔥 Top 3: Most Sats
• 😂 Nostr Memes
• 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
  • 1. Coracle - 0.6.25
  • 2. Mostro - v0.15.0
  • 3. Flotilla - 1.3.1
  • 4. Bitchat - v1.4.4
  • 5. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.13.25
  • 6. Gitplaza - v0.14.0
• 🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases
  • 1. ContextVM SDK - New Developer tool
  • 2. Nostr-java - v1.0.1
• 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
  • 1. Nosflare - v7.4.14
• 👋 Stay in Touch & Zap
• 🙌 Credits

§🧠 Quote of the Week

@paulinthejungle

§“Nostr is the final destination for your content.

§Owned by you, viewable in many apps, monetizable, & censorship resistant.

§This will become more obvious over time”

§🔥 Community Highlights

§1. This time Rabble invited to Harper for Revolution.social

§2. He didn’t forget to thank us too

TKay

Oct 15, 2025 13:53

GM nostr. Today we made history at #compasscoffee

First Square terminal in the wild accepting #bitcoin .

Thank you Michael and @jack | @CashApp for making this a reality, we can’t wait for public release. 🚀

Also, thanks to all the people on nostr, this transaction was over NWC with @damus and @coinos , wild.

Thanks to everyone who ever zapped me, you contributed to this as well! ✌️

It is truly magic internet money. LFG! #coffeechain

https://v.nostr.build/ggFpdN3ksoyJnnGu.mp4

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§3. This is the truth about Nostr

§4. Nostr series #8 by Hodl

§5. There is a concern to think twice in this statement

§6. Do you agree with this?

§7. You also feel Nostr like this?

§8. Let’s see why his Nostr experience is better these days

§9. Just wakeup on Yakihonne plebs

§10. She celebrates 3k with quality over quantity on Nostr

§11. These frustrations should be solved on Nostr

§🌱 Ecosystem Growth

§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://nostr.watch, there are more than 850 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment.

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

§During last week:

§- Total Users: 2,580, compared to 2,552 zaps the week before

§According to https://stats.nostr.band,

§During last week:

§- Total zaps: 40,668, compared to 37,499 zaps the week before

§- Total zap senders: 2,668, compared to 2,847 plebs the week before

§- Total zap amount: 8,246,204, compared to 6,831,789 sats the week before

§- Total events: 2,764,277, compared to 2,654,882 events the week before

Many thanks to https://npub.world/stats by @pip and @franzap https://stats.nostr.band by @brugeman all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr and https://nostr.watch for providing these insights.

§🎓 Educational Guides

§1. How to easily sync your Twitter to Nostr

§📅 Upcoming Events

§1. Nostrclass by Aza - Bitplebs summit - October 2025

• 📅 Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025

• ⏰ Time: 5.45 PM - 6.30 PM GMT+5:30

• 📍 Location: Paloma de Goa Resort Novo vaddo, Sernabatim, Colva, Goa 403708, India

• 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @@34d6…yggk

• 🎟️ Registration: Open to all @bitplebs_in Pass holders. Venue TBA soon! No registration required. Just show up!

• 🔗 Event: https://cream-bellflower-e9a.notion.site/Nostrclass-2824c5c745c28058815fdff7b05f56c9

https://www.satlantis.io/events/1133/NOSTR-Beyond-Social-Media

§2. Nostr Vancouver meetup - October 2025

• 📅 Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025

• ⏰ Time: 6.30 PM - 8.30 PM PDT

• 📍 Location: DCTRL 436 W Pender St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1T5, Canada

• 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: Martin Montero

• 🔗 Event: https://luma.com/3tpxlv3k

§3. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - November 2025

• 📅 Date: Sunday, November 02, 2025

• ⏰ Time: 12:00 PM - 1.00 PM MST

• 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, USA

• 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: Chris Curran

• 🔗 Event: https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyhcpbdb/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

§4. Nostrshire - November 2025

• 📅 Date: Friday, November 21, 2025

• ⏰ Time: 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

• 📍 Location: Pendulum Hotel Sackville St, Manchester M1 3BB, United Kingdom

• 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @@r9zw…q8lx

• 🔗 Event: https://bitfest.uk/#nostrshire

§5. Nostrasia - November 2025

• 📅 Date: Saturday, November 22, 2025

• ⏰ Time: 1:00 PM - 9:00 PM GMT+9 (Doors open at 12:30 PM)

• 📍 Location: Crypto Lounge GOX 6F Tenam Town Building, 2-19-15 Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0021, Japan

• 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @Nostrasia

• 🎟️ Admission: Free

• 🔗 Event:

  apco

  Sep 22, 2025 11:32

  🚀 Nostrasia 2025 is happening! 🚀

  📅 Date: Saturday, November 22, 2025 📍 Venue: Crypto Lounge GOX(in Tokyo) 🎟️ Admission: Free

  Not just for Nostr users—anyone interested in decentralized social media is welcome! Talks, merch, and even a shrine where you can draw your fortune—lots of fun content awaits!

  👉 Join here: https://nostrasia.com

  #nostrasia2025

  Nostrasia

  Sep 22, 2025 11:10

  Nostrasia 2025 開催決定！

  2025年11月22日（土）13時より、 Crypto Lounge GOXにて開催！ ※入場無料

  Nostrユーザーだけでなく、 分散型SNSに興味がある方など大歓迎！ 講演、物販、おみくじが引ける神社など、様々なコンテンツをご用意してお待ちしております！

  参加申込はこちらから↓ nostrasia.com

  #Nostrasia2025

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§📰 Nostr in the Media

§1. First-ever Nostr World Unconference in Uvita, Costa Rica in 2023 : Q&A session

@jack @Derek Ross

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOYum10HaxY

§2. What’s Nostr’s Biggest Allure?

@momotahmasbi @@fjjg…k8jn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f3Cs7BlJSc

§3. NOSTR Social Media Explained: Decentralized Future with Bitcoin & Free Speech

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GXkTt3UXCwo

§4. What is NOSTR? Decentralized Identity & Rewards

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lIT4OOTxOas

§⚡ Most Zapped Last Week

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

1. Name: @Rizful.com (zap tester)

   • Zaps Received: 1022
   • Sats Earned: 1k

2. Name: @flash

   • Zaps Received: 820
   • Sats Earned: 135k

3. Name: @Gigi

   • Zaps Received: 464
   • Sats Earned: 48k

§🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers

1. Name: @aqstr

   • Zaps Sent: 1640
   • Sats Spent: 49k

2. Name: @BitcoinArtMag

   • Zaps Sent: 532
   • Sats Spent: 32k

3. Name: @piotr

   • Zaps Sent: 358
   • Sats Spent: 169k

§💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received

1. Name: @Daniyal

   • Sats Earned: 1M
   • Zaps Received: 1

2. Name: @BenJustman

   • Sats Earned: 1M
   • Zaps Received: 117

3. Name: @fountainboostbot

   • Sats Earned: 525k
   • Zaps Received: 394

§💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent

1. Name: @Five

   • Sats Spent: 1M
   • Zaps Sent: 2

2. Name: “Not showing the name”

   • Sats Spent: 522k
   • Zaps Sent: 10

3. Name: @BitBetBot

   • Sats Spent: 332k
   • Zaps Sent: 86

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

§🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

1.

• Zaps Received: 80
• Sats Earned: 58k

2.

• Zaps Received: 58
• Sats Earned: 7k

3.

• Zaps Received: 55
• Sats Earned: 38k

§🔥 Top 3: Most Sats

1.

BenJustman

Oct 14, 2025 02:57

ZAPSNAG DEAL OF THE DAY

The Crimson Collection🍷

Zap this note ⚡260k sats to receive these 6 bottles. FREE SHIPPING in the USA 🇺🇸

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• Sats Earned: 1M
• Zaps Received: 10

2.

• Sats Earned: 58k
• Zaps Received: 80

3.

• Sats Earned: 38k
• Zaps Received: 55

§😂 Nostr Memes

1.

corndalorian

Oct 18, 2025 21:39

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2.

corndalorian

Oct 16, 2025 18:55

Maybe this version is better 😂

corndalorian

Oct 16, 2025 18:46

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3.

corndalorian

Oct 16, 2025 12:42

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4.

corndalorian

Oct 16, 2025 12:57

😂

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5.

corndalorian

Oct 15, 2025 20:47

Zaps are wildly unpredictable 😂

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6.

7.

corndalorian

Oct 13, 2025 18:58

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8.

corndalorian

Oct 13, 2025 18:50

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9.

DuneMessias

Oct 17, 2025 06:35

GM. Welcome to Orange Pill Alley.

Zap Zide #Nostr #bitcoin #GM #coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr #zapzide

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10.

DuneMessias

Oct 16, 2025 06:20

GM. Patient Zero strikes again.

Zap Zide #Nostr #bitcoin #GM #coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr #zapzide

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11.

DuneMessias

Oct 15, 2025 06:51

GM. The future was not hiring

Zap Zide #Nostr #bitcoin #GM #coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr #zapzide

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12.

DuneMessias

Oct 14, 2025 06:23

GM. Again.

Zap Zide #Nostr #bitcoin #GM #coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr #zapzide

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§🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases

§1. Coracle - 0.6.25

Coracle is an experimental Nostr client designed to harness the full power of multiple relays, allowing users to browse, filter, zap, and build custom feeds for a personalized Nostr experience. This release, adds the display of “a” tags on highlights and disables imgproxy by default for improved performance and flexibility.

• Developed by: @@jlrs…ynqn
• Source: https://github.com/coracle-social/coracle/releases/tag/0.6.25

§2. Mostro - v0.15.0

Mostro is a peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange platform built on the Lightning Network and Nostr, enabling decentralized trading between users without intermediaries. This release introduces the removal of the OpenSSL dependency in favor of Rust TLS for improved security, adds manifest signature support, and refines order request handling. It also fixes issues related to trade index messaging and payment failure calculations, while improving dispute error messages and overall performance. This was the biggest release and the latest release was v0.15.1 last week.

• Developed by: @negrunch @Pinball Wizard @@catr…euhz Otso Hirvikangas
• Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro/releases/tag/v0.15.0

§3. Flotilla - 1.3.1

Flotilla is an end-user Nostr client designed like Discord, using the concept of “relays as groups” to enable chat and community interactions. This release fixes a memory leak in the storage adapter and reduces the number of annoying toast messages, improving performance and user experience.

• Developed by: @@jlrs…ynqn
• Source: https://github.com/coracle-social/flotilla/releases/tag/1.3.1

§4. Bitchat - v1.4.4

Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that combines local Bluetooth mesh networks for offline communication with the Nostr protocol for global messaging, requiring no accounts, phone numbers, or central servers. This release focuses heavily on localization and modularization, adding new languages, unifying string handling, and refactoring modules like Tor and PeerID services. It also improves private chat deduplication, fixes stale messages and ghost peers, optimizes performance for location notes, enhances QR verification, and addresses various test and build issues to ensure a more stable, secure, and efficient messaging experience across platforms.

• Developed by: @jack
• Source: https://github.com/permissionlesstech/bitchat/releases/tag/v1.4.4

§5. Nostr Ynstant Messenger - v2.13.25

Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a lightweight ephemeral chat client built on the Nostr protocol, designed for anonymous and temporary messaging with Bitchat integration. In this release it added the ability to copy user public keys directly from context menus, introduced kind 10000 mute list support for blocking users and keywords, and fixed several bugs, including issues with blocked users’ nicks, geohash explorer resets, and nostr profile data preservation. This was the biggest release and there were also some multiple releases last week.

• Developed by: @Luxas
• Source: https://github.com/Spl0itable/NYM/releases/tag/v2.13.25

§6. Gitplaza - v0.14.0

GitPlaza is a desktop Nostr client specialized in handling Git-related activities within the Nostr ecosystem. In this release it added features to show repository topics, edit repository events, list maintainers, display all Git servers and websites in the repo view, include nutzap events in the inbox, and populate the hashtag filter with followed hashtags, while improving performance by preventing README.md requests from blocking subsequent actions.

• Developed by: @dluvian
• Source: https://codeberg.org/dluvian/gitplaza/releases/tag/v0.14.0

§🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases

§1. ContextVM SDK - New Developer tool

ContextVM SDK is a JavaScript/TypeScript software development kit that implements the Context Vending Machine Protocol, acting as a bridge between Nostr and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It enables developers to create, expose, and access decentralized computational services, allowing applications to securely exchange contextual data and AI capabilities across distributed networks.

• Developed by: @Gzuuus
• Source: https://github.com/ContextVM/sdk

§2. Nostr-java - v1.0.1

Nostr-java is a Java SDK for the Nostr protocol that enables developers to create, sign, and publish Nostr events to relays with ease. This release refines event handling, adds Sonatype Central publishing credentials, and updates Maven configuration and settings for improved central publishing and API management. This was the latest release and there was also the release of v1.0.0 last week.

• Developed by: @398ja
• Source: https://github.com/tcheeric/nostr-java/releases/tag/v1.0.1

§🌐 Relay Updates and Releases

§1. Nosflare - v7.4.14

Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay built to run on Cloudflare Workers with support for Cloudflare D1 and R2 Object Storage, offering a scalable and efficient relay infrastructure for the Nostr network. The latest update, v7.4.14, introduces a stale session expiry mechanism to improve connection stability and lowers the REQ rate limit per minute to optimize performance and prevent excessive relay load.

• Developed by: @Luxas
• Source: https://github.com/Spl0itable/nosflare/releases/tag/v7.4.14

§👋 Stay in Touch & Zap

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 forty-sixth Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #nostrrecap, and let’s keep #grownostr together.

§🙌 Credits

Thank you @Jurjen de Vries for giving me this idea!

A big shoutout to @rabble for his generous patronage!

Thank you, my brother @samalka for helping me to make the graphic stuff in this recap!

Recap by @Nomishka