🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (12th January 2026 - 58th Edition)
- 🧠 Quotes of the Week
- 🔥 Community Highlights
- 1. A giant news from a Primal member 👇
- 2. Let’s follow up Nostr-components project 😎
- 3. Let’s tribute to Hal Finney 🫡
- 4. Is Nostr dead? What is your opinion? 🫵
- 5. Nostr gives you life lessons too 😍
- 6. With these kind of users, Nostr won’t die 👇
- 7. Let’s learn english 👨🏫
- 8. Action matters than the amount 👈
- 9. This is 💯% true
- 10. A new nostrich who doesn’t like Bitcoin? 😮
- 11. Yes it is 😉
- 12. This is awesome! 😍
- 13. Really well said 👌
- 14. Let’s help her for this great work 👇
- 15. That is gonna be very simple 😉
- 16. A special day of a pleb’s life. Congrats! 👨🍼
- 17. Yeah, That is the truth 👇
- 🌱 Ecosystem Growth
- According to https://npub.world/stats,
- During last week:
- 👉 Total Users: 1,536, compared to 5,288 users the week before
- According to https://stats.nostr.band,
- During last week:
- 👉 Total Zaps: 40,400, compared to 35,015 zaps the week before
- 👉 Total Zap Senders: 2,749, compared to 2,721 plebs the week before
- 👉 Total Zap Amount: 6,454,048, compared to 6,611,280 sats the week before
- 👉 Total Events: 2,774,852, compared to 3,215,438 events the week before
- 🎓 Educational Guides
- 📅 Upcoming Events
- 📰 Nostr in the Media
- ⚡ 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
- 🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases
- 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
- 👋 Stay in Touch & Zap
- 🫡 Credits
🧠 Quotes of the Week
“Nostr wins when we support each other. 🧡🤝”
“Nostr is unstoppable.”
🔥 Community Highlights
1. A giant news from a Primal member 👇
2. Let’s follow up Nostr-components project 😎
3. Let’s tribute to Hal Finney 🫡
Hi Bitcoiners - it’s Fran again.
Seventeen years ago, Hal posted two words that changed everything: “Running bitcoin.”
Today, thousands of bitcoiners in 50+ countries run in his name.
The 5th #RunningBitcoinChallenge starts now. ⚡️🏃♂️
Join us at runningbitcoin.us
🏃♀️ What it is
Starting Jan 10 and for the next 21 days, we honor Hal by running or walking 21 km (13.1 mi) – anywhere, any pace.
Every step helps fund research to end ALS, the disease Hal fought while still running and still coding.
💛 Why Hal
Hal believed code could help set humanity free.
His work set the stage for Bitcoin. He was one of the very first to run Bitcoin, the recipient of the first BTC transaction. And he was an avid runner until progression of his ALS made it impossible.
This challenge is our way of keeping both his cypherpunk spirit and his legacy alive.
⚡️ Who’s backing it
This year’s challenge is supported by:
– HRF – defending human freedom and privacy with Bitcoin
– Block – building on open money for the world
I’m also proud to highlight HRF’s Finney Freedom Prize, honoring work at the intersection of Bitcoin, freedom, and privacy.
Congratulations to the 3rd halving era’s winner, Andreas M. Antonopoulos - who educated millions on Bitcoin and its potential for humanity.
Hal would be proud of your work. 🏆
💰 Where your sats go
– 80%+ of all funds go directly to ALS research
– Donations in bitcoin (and fiat) are accepted
Every sat, every step, every share moves us closer to a cure.
👣 How to join
1. Go to runningbitcoin.us
2. Sign up for the Running Bitcoin Challenge
3. Run, walk, or hike your 21 km over 21 days
4. Post your progress and share a photo and tag #RunningBitcoinChallenge
🙏 From me to you
I’m Fran Finney, Hal’s wife.
Every January, I watch this community show up – running, walking, donating, sharing.
You keep Hal’s spirit alive. That means everything to me.
📡 Find us on Nostr
– Me (Fran):
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– Running Bitcoin Challenge:
@RunningBitcoinChallenge
21 days. 21 km. 1 legend.
Run. Walk. Donate. Share.
Join us in honoring Hal – and if you participate, I’d love to see your pictures.
👉 runningbitcoin.us 
4. Is Nostr dead? What is your opinion? 🫵
5. Nostr gives you life lessons too 😍
6. With these kind of users, Nostr won’t die 👇
7. Let’s learn english 👨🏫
8. Action matters than the amount 👈
9. This is 💯% true
10. A new nostrich who doesn’t like Bitcoin? 😮
11. Yes it is 😉
12. This is awesome! 😍
13. Really well said 👌
14. Let’s help her for this great work 👇
15. That is gonna be very simple 😉
16. A special day of a pleb’s life. Congrats! 👨🍼
17. Yeah, That is the truth 👇
🌱 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 950 relays online in around 50 countries at the moment.
According to https://npub.world/stats,
During last week:
👉 Total Users: 1,536, compared to 5,288 users the week before
According to https://stats.nostr.band,
During last week:
👉 Total Zaps: 40,400, compared to 35,015 zaps the week before
👉 Total Zap Senders: 2,749, compared to 2,721 plebs the week before
👉 Total Zap Amount: 6,454,048, compared to 6,611,280 sats the week before
👉 Total Events: 2,774,852, compared to 3,215,438 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
No Educational Guides for last week.
📅 Upcoming Events
1. POSSE content with Drupal using Nostr at FOSDEM 2026 - January 2026
📅 Date: Saturday, January 31, 2026 ⏰ Time: 5.35 PM - 6.00 PM CET (UTC+1) 📍 Location: Room: K.3.401 Track: Collaboration and Content Management Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solbosch Campus Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles / Brussels, Belgium
🤹♀️ Organizers: FOSDEM, @Sebastix
🔗 Event: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SDDNPS-posse-content-drupal-nostr
2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - January 2026
📅 Date: Sunday, February 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/mlcdqtyjcdbcb/
3. Nostr Nights #1 - February 2026
📅 Date: Monday, February 2, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 8.30 PM CST 📍 Location: 1910 21st Ave S Nashville, TN, USA
🤹♀️ Organizers: @Derek Ross @shawn @OpenMike @05d3…uhce @bitkite
🔗 Event: https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinpark/events/312318620
📰 Nostr in the Media
1. Soapbox Sessions Episode 19: Doin’ It In Bed
2. Make Bitcoin (and NOSTR) BETTER!
3. Vibe Coding On-Demand Replay from January 5, 2026
⚡ 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
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Name: @
- Zaps Received: 946
- Sats Earned: 2M
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Name: @Rizful.com (zap tester)
- Zaps Received: 785
- Sats Earned: 950
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Name: @flash
- Zaps Received: 783
- Sats Earned: 113k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
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Name: @aqstr
- Zaps Sent: 3906
- Sats Spent: 425k
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Name: @twentyone
- Zaps Sent: 249
- Sats Spent: 8k
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Name: @Kayne
- Zaps Sent: 243
- Sats Spent: 2k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
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Name: @
- Sats Earned: 2M
- Zaps Received: 946
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Name: @fountainboostbot
- Sats Earned: 627k
- Zaps Received: 332
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Name: @Leathermint
- Sats Earned: 331k
- Zaps Received: 48
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
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Name: @aqstr
- Sats Spent: 425k
- Zaps Sent: 3906
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Name: @ODELL
- Sats Spent: 373k
- Zaps Sent: 83
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Name: @6c0n…6nvr
- Sats Spent: 216k
- Zaps Sent: 18
Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement:
🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
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- Zaps Received: 120
- Sats Earned: 51k
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- Zaps Received: 86
- Sats Earned: 4k
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- Zaps Received: 74
- Sats Earned: 17k
🔥 Top 3: Most Sats
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I currently have 3 person asking for the old world harness. It is my absolute favorite. I love it so much. I like to work this leather, I like to wear it. I’ve been wearing mine for years now. It aged with me. The patina is incredible.
If you too want one, zap 110k on this note and give me your desired size. (Your pants size +2 or follow instructions below)
- Sats Earned: 330k
- Zaps Received: 5
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- Sats Earned: 104k
- Zaps Received: 14
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- Sats Earned: 57k
- Zaps Received: 28
😂 Nostr Memes
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GM! Confused? Perfect. That’s Nostr!
Zap Zide #Nostr #bitcoin #GM #coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr #zapzide
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🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
1. Amethyst - v1.05.0: Bookmark Lists, Voice Notes, and WoT Scores
Amethyst is an Android Nostr client designed for social networking and communication, enabling users to post, follow, bookmark, zap, and exchange messages over Nostr relays in a mobile-first experience. This release adds full bookmark list management, a redesigned voice notes and replies system, and introduces Web of Trust (WoT) scores via trusted providers to help surface reputable accounts, while significantly improving relay information visibility, database performance, caching, and event parsing. Together, these changes make Amethyst faster, more expressive, and safer to use, helping users better organize content, communicate more naturally, and navigate Nostr with greater confidence. This was the biggest release and the latest release was v1.05.1 of the week.
Contributed by: @VitorPamplona @KotlinGeek @⚡ Dee Kay ⚡🇸🇪🇬🇧🇨🇿🇧🇷🇦🇹 @PurplePainter @Kirpy @StellarStoic @beefenergy @Derek Ross @greenart7c3 @Polak @Zoltan @summoner @राज @⚡₿it₿y₿it⚡ @Coool @Bartus @Anthony 🇫🇷 @CXPLAY
2. Amber - v4.0.7
Amber is an Android Nostr event signer that allows users and apps to securely create and sign Nostr events without exposing private keys. This release focuses on stability and usability by fixing several crashes, separating relay notifications from service-related notifications for clearer messaging, and preserving screen state on the login screen, resulting in a more reliable and smoother signing experience for both end users and developers integrating Nostr authentication and event signing into their apps.
Contributed by: @greenart7c3
3. Primal Android App - 2.6.18
Primal Android App is a mobile Nostr client designed for end users, offering a fast, full-featured social experience on Android with strong performance and native Nostr integrations. This release adds support for Remote Signer (NIP-46) and Android Signer (NIP-55), giving users more secure and flexible ways to manage keys and sign events, while numerous performance improvements such as avatar and media pre-caching, faster thread loading, smoother scrolling, and better image rendering make the app feel noticeably more responsive. Bug fixes and UX enhancements, including improved notifications behavior, deep link handling, and richer media metadata, result in a more stable, polished, and seamless daily Nostr experience.
Contributed by: Aleksandar Ilic
4. Nostr Polls - v1.0.0: Pollerama Now on Android!
Nostr Polls (Pollerama) is an application focused on creating, sharing, and participating in polls in a decentralized way. This release marks Pollerama’s debut as a native Android app, bringing the pollerama.fun experience to mobile with Android-specific features such as direct login via Amber and Nsec. This makes it easier and faster for users to authenticate, vote, and create polls on the go, while benefiting from smoother performance and tighter integration with the Android Nostr ecosystem.
Contributed by: @ABH3PO
5. Nostr Ynstant Messenger (NYM) - v2.25.63
Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a chat application designed for both ephemeral and persistent messaging, with optional anonymous, temporary chats bridged through Bitchat. This release improves internal handling by separating file types, which reduces processing overhead and boosts performance. As a result, users get faster message handling, smoother media interactions, and a more responsive chat experience, especially in conversations that include shared files. This was the latest and there was also the release of v2.24.63 last week.
Contributed by: @Luxas
6. Nostur - v1.25.3
Nostur is a Nostr client for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, designed for manage feeds, DMs, and interactions across multiple accounts. This release adds “time ago” indicators in DMs, enables viewing other users’ feeds in new desktop columns, restores DM functionality on iOS 15/16, fixes message ordering and notification delays, improves DM fetching, and adds options for publishing DM relays, remote signer checks, and retrying failed signings. These updates enhance usability, reliability, and cross-device messaging consistency for users.
Contributed by: @n0st…lahe
🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases
1. Nostr MCP Server - v2.1.0
Nostr MCP Server is a developer tool that implements the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to expose Nostr functionality such as reading, publishing, and interacting with events to large language models like Claude. This release streamlines the codebase by migrating tests and release workflows to Bun for faster execution, simplifying build scripts with native shell commands, and removing the NIPs search feature along with external GitHub API and node-fetch dependencies. These changes reduce complexity, speed up development and testing, lower dependency overhead, and make the server more lightweight and reliable for developers integrating Nostr capabilities into LLM-powered applications.
Contributed by: @bitcoinplebdev
🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
1. Citrine - v1.0.0
Citrine is a Nostr relay designed to run directly on Android devices, enabling users to host and participate in Nostr relay functionality locally. This release marks its first stable version and improves reliability and usability by adding a crash report handler, supporting Android content resolvers, automatically broadcasting queued events to relays when the device comes back online, filling in missing settings strings, enabling hosting of web apps, and improving performance when loading event kinds, making Citrine more stable, resilient, and practical as a mobile Nostr relay.
Contributed by: @greenart7c3 @₿ @₿
👋 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 Fifty-Eighth 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 this amazing idea!
A big shoutout to @rabble for his generous patronage!
Thank you, my brother @samalka for helping me to make the graphic stuff for this recap!
Recap by @Nomishka
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