🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (24th November 2025 - 51st Edition)
- 🧠 Quote of the Week
- 🔥 Community Highlights
- 1. This is the truth about Nostr 👇
- 2. Primal faced a trouble with the Cloudflare outage 😟
- 3. The speciality here is that most Nostriches are grateful for their lives ✌️
- 4. A lot of things to learn from this community 📚
- 5. Seems Nostrasia was such a nice meetup 😍
- 6. A heartbreaking story with a life lesson 😢
- 7. Let’s learn english on Nostr 📖
- 8. That’s the power of Nostr? 💪
- 9. Nostr is better than X indeed 👍
- 10. This is really true by the Nostr founder 👇
- 11. Yep, that is Nostr 😉
- 12. Hmm, something to think 🤔
- 13. Nostr is awesome 🫡
- 14. A special statement from Mastodon CEO 📢
- 15. This is the truth about vibe coding 👨💻
- 16. A Pretty pleb celebrates her 29th birthday in Nostr 🎂
- 🌱 Ecosystem Growth
- Nostr is growing fast!
- Total Users: 2,516, compared to 3,569 users the week before
- Total Zaps: 33,858, compared to 37,007 zaps the week before
- Total Zap senders: 3,379, compared to 3,737 plebs the week before
- Total Zap Amount: 9,838,060, compared to 11,092,205 sats the week before
- Total Events: 3,956,576, compared to 3,016,559 events the week before
- 🎓 Educational Guides
- 📅 Upcoming Events
- 📰 Nostr in the Media
- 1. Rabble explains how diVine revives Vine on an open source platform that users can trust
- 2. Soapbox Sessions Episode 12: Bat Drones
- 3. Nostr fixes Copyright’s broken bargain
- 4. Shakespeare & Nostr
- 5. The Simple Way to Run a Lightning Node Using Nostr!
- 6. Will Nostr be the new queen of social media?
- 7. HenkyPenky - Nostr gyorstalpaló
- 8. Inovações para a Rede Nostr
- 9. La próxima gran revolución digital: Nostr según El Negro
- ⚡ Most Zapped Last Week
- 😂 Nostr Memes
- 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
- 🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases
- 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
- 👋 Stay in Touch & Zap
- 🫡 Credits
🧠 Quote of the Week
“Nostr is whatever users, not devs, want it to be.”
🔥 Community Highlights
1. This is the truth about Nostr 👇
2. Primal faced a trouble with the Cloudflare outage 😟
3. The speciality here is that most Nostriches are grateful for their lives ✌️
4. A lot of things to learn from this community 📚
5. Seems Nostrasia was such a nice meetup 😍
6. A heartbreaking story with a life lesson 😢
7. Let’s learn english on Nostr 📖
8. That’s the power of Nostr? 💪
9. Nostr is better than X indeed 👍
10. This is really true by the Nostr founder 👇
11. Yep, that is Nostr 😉
12. Hmm, something to think 🤔
13. Nostr is awesome 🫡
14. A special statement from Mastodon CEO 📢
15. This is the truth about vibe coding 👨💻
16. A Pretty pleb celebrates her 29th birthday in 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 870 relays online in more than 45 countries at the moment.
According to https://npub.world/stats,
During last week:
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Total Users: 2,516, compared to 3,569 users the week before

According to https://stats.nostr.band,
During last week:
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Total Zaps: 33,858, compared to 37,007 zaps the week before

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Total Zap senders: 3,379, compared to 3,737 plebs the week before

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Total Zap Amount: 9,838,060, compared to 11,092,205 sats the week before

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Total Events: 3,956,576, compared to 3,016,559 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. DIVINE NOSTR TUTORIAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNzCsBtF6gc
📅 Upcoming Events
1. Nostr Devs El Salvador - November 2025
📅 Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2025 ⏰ Time: 5.00 PM - 7.00 PM CST 📍 Location: Bitcoin Embassy El Salvador MQ99+MX2, San Salvador, El Salvador
🤹♀️ Organizers: @FreeFazzi
🔗 Event: https://www.satlantis.io/events/1297/Nostr-Devs-El-Salvador
2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - December 2025
📅 Date: Sunday, December 7, 2025 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MST 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers: Chris Curran
🔗 Event: https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyhcqbkb
📰 Nostr in the Media
1. Rabble explains how diVine revives Vine on an open source platform that users can trust
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DN0XYGPQaeg
2. Soapbox Sessions Episode 12: Bat Drones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R6wPGco_eg
3. Nostr fixes Copyright’s broken bargain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9nS3YNJw4c
4. Shakespeare & Nostr
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KbN2dCj7t48
5. The Simple Way to Run a Lightning Node Using Nostr!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDOaDBhQeiQ
6. Will Nostr be the new queen of social media?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ_Tn3-eMfg
7. HenkyPenky - Nostr gyorstalpaló
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0bAgnt_5w4
8. Inovações para a Rede Nostr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qUalRUyfEw
9. La próxima gran revolución digital: Nostr según El Negro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LkRd98ax8I
⚡ 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: @Rizful.com (zap tester)
- Zaps Received: 1003
- Sats Earned: 2k
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Name: @flash
- Zaps Received: 831
- Sats Earned: 79k
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Name: @lrnv…qnw5
- Zaps Received: 382
- Sats Earned: 25k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
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Name: @RUNSTR
- Zaps Sent: 775
- Sats Spent: 6k
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Name: @
- Zaps Sent: 326
- Sats Spent: 978
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Name: @piotr
- Zaps Sent: 295
- Sats Spent: 188k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
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Name: @fountainboostbot
- Sats Earned: 498k
- Zaps Received: 294
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Name: @BenJustman
- Sats Earned: 464k
- Zaps Received: 253
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Name: @BitBetBot
- Sats Earned: 329k
- Zaps Received: 49
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
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Name: @Keith Meola
- Sats Spent: 450k
- Zaps Sent: 43
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Name: @BitBetBot
- Sats Spent: 285k
- Zaps Sent: 73
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Name: @Rizful.com
- Sats Spent: 214k
- Zaps Sent: 77
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🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
1. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.0.6
Mostro Mobile Client is a modern, secure mobile app for peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading on the Mostro platform. This release adds a Restore Orders feature, allowing users to recover previous orders seamlessly after session loss, even in privacy or reputation modes. The app is now optimized for device-specific processors, making downloads smaller, installations faster, and improving compatibility (Zapstore version now supports arm64-v8a devices). Behind-the-scenes fixes enhance file verification during builds, ensuring more reliable updates and secure installations.
Developed by: @andreadcorreia @Bracr10 @catr…euhz @qqqq…rfkq Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mobile/releases/tag/v1.0.6
🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases
1. Dart Nostr Development Kit (NDK) - v0.6.0
Dart Nostr Development Kit (NDK) is a developer library that streamlines building Nostr apps in Dart by providing fast event verification, account management, signing tools, relay handling, NIP support, and cross-platform compatibility. This release brings a large batch of improvements, including upgraded Rust bridges, NIP-13 PoW support, account state listeners, improved async signers, bug fixes for bunker/JIT engines, enhanced subscription handling, multiple-relay NWC capabilities, better deletion broadcasting, parallel event verification, an updated logger (WASM-compatible), an ObjectBox v5 upgrade, and expanded NIP-19 support (nprofile, naddr, and nevent). This update heavily focuses on stability, performance, documentation, and broader platform compatibility for developers building modern Nostr apps in Dart.
Developed by: @Russell @fmar @w9ll…3tur Source: https://github.com/relaystr/ndk/releases/tag/v0.6.0
2. Aegis - v0.3.1 iOS & Mac release
Aegis is a simple, cross-platform Nostr signer designed for developers and users who need secure key signing with multiple connection methods. This release adds event statistics, logs, and restart controls to its built-in local relay, introduces a cleaner split layout on desktop, and refactors the Dart-based Nostr implementation for better maintainability and future extensibility, improving both reliability and the overall developer experience.
Developed by: @ZharlieW Source: https://github.com/ZharlieW/Aegis/releases/tag/v0.3.1
3. Gitplaza - v0.19.0
Gitplaza is a desktop Nostr client focused on managing Git repositories and workflows. In this version, it adds support for multiple accounts and login via bunker or npub, allows downloading repos and opening them with a file manager, improves web-of-trust calculations, introduces a “bounty” tag for issues, renders LICENSE and README files in-editor, highlights zero connection status, updates issue and patch handling, improves NIP-10 support, refines the UI with extra spinners and better toast buttons, increases horizontal space for repo content, and removes rigid subscription timeouts for smoother operation.
Developed by: @dluvian Source: https://codeberg.org/dluvian/gitplaza/releases/tag/v0.19.0
🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
1. Nosflare - v7.7.15
Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay built for Cloudflare Workers using a Cloudflare D1 database and R2 storage. This update introduces faster performance through new indexes, improved query handling, expanded caching, and several database-level optimizations. Because of these changes, relay operators must run a small SQL migration to add new cache tables, follow-graph views, and timeline caches. For users, this results in noticeably quicker feeds, more accurate follow-based timelines, and overall smoother event retrieval across the relay. This was the latest release, and there were also the releases of v7.6.15 and v7.4.13 last week.
Developed by: @Luxas Source: https://github.com/Spl0itable/nosflare/releases/tag/v7.7.15
2. Citrine - v0.9.0
Citrine is an Android-based Nostr relay, letting Android devices act as lightweight personal relays that any Nostr client can connect to for sending and receiving events. This release upgrades Citrine to the latest Quartz engine, adds proxy support and a backup system (with automatic retention of the last five backups), updates dependencies, and fixes issues where some events were missing during import/export, making it a more reliable and configurable mobile relay solution.
Developed by: @greenart7c3 Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine/releases/tag/v0.9.0
👋 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-First 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 your generous patronage!
Thank you, my brother @samalka for helping me to make the graphic stuff for this recap!
Recap by @Nomishka