🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap - 08th September 2025 🚀

• 🧠 Quote of the Week
  • “Nostr is the most wholesome community in the internet.”
• 🔥 Community Highlights
  • 1. The latest revolution.social: This time with Taylor Lorenz
  • 2. A Tremendous Nostrich is celebrating Father’s day with his lovely daughter
  • 3. Seems like they had a nice meetup
  • 4. The Nostr creator is not a real #Nostr lover?
  • 5. This protocol is gonna be awesome
  • 6. It should always give incentives to attract more plebs
  • 7. This Nostrich is doing a lot with vlogs on Nostr
  • 8. Nostr needs time to get better
  • 9. A dad proudly speaks about his daughter
  • 10. First Nostr posting of a lady artist
  • 11. Pavle celebrates the special day with Nostr
  • 12. Some people just talk and practically don’t use Nostr
  • 13. There won’t be any regret sticking with Nostr
  • 14. These vloggers make the Nostr better
  • 15. This musician has realized the value of Nostr
  • 16. Somehow this is the truth
• 🌱 Ecosystem Growth
  • Nostr is growing fast!
  • Overview
  • Total zaps: 35,202, compared to 38,343 zaps the week before
  • Total zap senders: 750, compared to 1,114 plebs the week before
  • Total zap receivers: 172, compared to 293 plebs the week before
  • Total zap amount: 10,235,498, compared to 9,592,827 sats the week before
  • Total events: 2,277,641, compared to 2,509,074 events the week before
• 🎓 Educational Guides
  • 1. X to Nostr in seconds
• 📅 Upcoming Events
  • 1. Nostr Atlanta #7 - Satochip Smartcard Giveaway! - September 2025
  • 2. Nostr Hackday Berlin - October 2025
  • 3. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - November 2025
• 📰 Nostr in the Media
  • 1. Bitcoin Asia Yakihonne Side Event
  • 2. How to earn Bitcoin without a large following with Nostr
• ⚡ 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
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• 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
  • 1. Amethyst - v1.03.0: Built-in video recording
  • 2. Coracle - 0.6.20
  • 3. Nowser - 1.3.0
  • 4. Oxchat App - v1.4.11
  • 5. Coop - v0.2.5
  • 6. Primal Android App - 2.5.8
  • 7. Nostr Ynstant Messenger (NYM) - v1.9.11
• 🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases
  • 1. Dart Nostr Development Kit (NDK) - v0.5.1
  • 2. Nostr Game Engine (ngengine) - 0.1.1
• 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
  • No Relay Updates and Releases for last week.
• 👋 Stay in Touch & Zap
• 🙌 Credits

§🧠 Quote of the Week

@uno

§“Nostr is the most wholesome community in the internet.”

§🔥 Community Highlights

§1. The latest revolution.social: This time with Taylor Lorenz

§2. A Tremendous Nostrich is celebrating Father’s day with his lovely daughter

rabble

Sep 7, 2025 01:42

It’s Father’s Day here in Aotearoa New Zealand and I’m spending it building the biggest Lego set I’ve ever seen with my daughter. 10,000 pieces.

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§3. Seems like they had a nice meetup

§4. The Nostr creator is not a real #Nostr lover?

§5. This protocol is gonna be awesome

§6. It should always give incentives to attract more plebs

§7. This Nostrich is doing a lot with vlogs on Nostr

§8. Nostr needs time to get better

§9. A dad proudly speaks about his daughter

jordan

Sep 5, 2025 22:22

New friends regularly learn we have 6 kids and comment, “I don’t know how you do it”. I’ll let my nostr friends in on a little secret. Kids don’t have to be a burden. Our culture keeps people infantilised into their thirties now. This is my young daughter. Every day she walks across our property, fetches our goats, milks them, filters the milk, cleans up, and brings it home, rain or shine. You want to know the craziest part… She loves it and takes pride in it. Everyone in our household has responsibilities from a young age. If you ever read this, I’m proud of you , baby! Daddy always loves you.

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§10. First Nostr posting of a lady artist

§11. Pavle celebrates the special day with Nostr

§12. Some people just talk and practically don’t use Nostr

§13. There won’t be any regret sticking with Nostr

§14. These vloggers make the Nostr better

§15. This musician has realized the value of Nostr

§16. Somehow this is the truth

§🌱 Ecosystem Growth

§Nostr is growing fast!

§Overview

• Pubkeys: 44535020
• Users: 1192736
• Trusted users: 195964
• Events: 606526111
• Posts: 160882484
• Zaps: 5418739
• Zap amount: 2521736791 sats

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 900 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment.

During last week:

§Total zaps: 35,202, compared to 38,343 zaps the week before

§Total zap senders: 750, compared to 1,114 plebs the week before

§Total zap receivers: 172, compared to 293 plebs the week before

§Total zap amount: 10,235,498, compared to 9,592,827 sats the week before

§Total events: 2,277,641, compared to 2,509,074 events the week before

Many thanks to 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. X to Nostr in seconds

@blosstr

§📅 Upcoming Events

§1. Nostr Atlanta #7 - Satochip Smartcard Giveaway! - September 2025

• 📅 Date: Monday, September 15, 2025

• ⏰ Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT

• 📍 Location: 684 John Wesley Dobbs Ave NE suite a1 Atlanta, GA, USA

• 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: Andrew L. and Stephen D.

🔗 Event: https://www.meetup.com/atlbitlab/events/310666846/

§2. Nostr Hackday Berlin - October 2025

• 📅 Date: Sunday, October 05, 2025
• ⏰ Time: Unspecified. Contact @NostrHackDay
• 📍 Location: Berlin, Germany
• 🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @NostrHackDay

🔗 Event:

§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

§📰 Nostr in the Media

§1. Bitcoin Asia Yakihonne Side Event

@YakiHonne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjA8-E4SyPE

§2. How to earn Bitcoin without a large following with Nostr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir6KHGjb3B8

§⚡ 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: @HODL

   • Zaps Received: 519
   • Sats Earned: 78k

2. Name: @cj8z…rz4u

   • Zaps Received: 364
   • Sats Earned: 142k

3. Name: @Gigi

   • Zaps Received: 356
   • Sats Earned: 46k

§🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers

1. Name: @FLjustin

   • Zaps Sent: 314
   • Sats Spent: 8k

2. Name: @bitcoinpoorguy

   • Zaps Sent: 230
   • Sats Spent: 2k

3. Name: @Laser

   • Zaps Sent: 167
   • Sats Spent: 25k

§💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received

1. Name: @fountainboostbot

   • Sats Earned: 460k
   • Zaps Received: 332

2. Name: @Tanja

   • Sats Earned: 254k
   • Zaps Received: 59

3. Name: @Huxley

   • Sats Earned: 199k
   • Zaps Received: 1

§💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent

1. Name: @agustinkassis

   • Sats Spent: 272k
   • Zaps Sent: 24

2. Name: Bill

   • Sats Spent: 207k
   • Zaps Sent: 2

3. Name: @Scrotus

   • Sats Spent: 106k
   • Zaps Sent: 14

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

§🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

1. HODL

   Sep 3, 2025 12:23

   Nostr Series # 6 “Compounding: The Secret To A Good Life”
   https://blossom.primal.net/bfda07dcb0da6575a9f3be3872b3ea1141117e08f3c41ae5729782ad783ea4c4.mov

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   • Zaps Received: 180
   • Sats Earned: 44k

2. Gigi

   Sep 6, 2025 10:54

   Nostr is still very broken and lots of the various parts didn’t live up to its potential… yet. But that doesn’t mean that it has failed. It means that there’s still work to be done, nothing more.

   Can it be frustrating at times? Sure. Could things be better? Undoubtedly. Is it a shame that many promising projects are only half finished and/or abandoned? Of course.

   Nostr’s promise, in part, is that it truly is for the people, by the people. And people are messy. And what nostr is trying to model is messy too. But it’s beautiful, and alive, and promising, and WAY better than it used to be. Warts and all.

   I love this place more and more each day, and I have no intention of leaving. And with the stuff that’s on the horizon this little corner of the (new and improved) internet is bound to get better still.

   It’s amazing that it exists and that stuff mostly works, imperfect as it may be. Makes me grateful. Thank you all 🙏🧡

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   • Zaps Received: 115
   • Sats Earned: 11k

3. Jeff Booth

   Sep 7, 2025 05:11

   Pretty epic morning in Indonesia!

   https://image.nostr.build/4cbb0b20ce31011db6deaf2c3226b918dd4aa1487e4746d18ba50f81819c0304.jpg

   View full event
   • Zaps Received: 89
   • Sats Earned: 8k

§🔥 Top 3: Most Sats

1. Tanja

   Sep 6, 2025 21:09

   Whoever zaps the most is getting this beauty @031ea...b340a …
   

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   • Sats Earned: 250k
   • Zaps Received: 3

2. Derek Ross

   Sep 7, 2025 13:43

   I spend about $100 a month, every month, and have for the past couple of years on Nostr relays and application servers. I don’t ask for donations. It’s costly. However, it’s more costly to not contribute to Nostr’s future. Freedom isn’t free.

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   • Sats Earned: 118k
   • Zaps Received: 81

3. AU9913

   Sep 1, 2025 19:14

   #zapsnag Animal-based, plastic-free Deodorant Cedarwood-Orange Scented (3oz) 12k for 1, 19k for 2, 25k for 3 Free shipping

   (Cedarwood-Lavendar also available)

   Ingredients: Pasture/Forest raised lard Local beeswax Organic arrowroot powder Bentonite Clay Baking soda Essential oil

   Contiguous US only Dm for signal or just dm address Give me 2 weeks to get it to ya bc this is my first time shipping, usually the meetup just buys all my stock

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   • Sats Earned: 93k
   • Zaps Received: 19

§😂 Nostr Memes

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corndalorian

Sep 5, 2025 13:58

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corndalorian

Sep 5, 2025 13:48

Pro tip: Make a separate npub to use for your 24/7 “radio” streams. I’m not gonna look at that shit at the top of my screen nonstop.

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corndalorian

Sep 5, 2025 10:30

☕️☀️

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corndalorian

Sep 5, 2025 02:13

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corndalorian

Sep 4, 2025 18:25

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corndalorian

Sep 2, 2025 16:59

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corndalorian

Sep 2, 2025 00:53

Quality interactions > Follower counts

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corndalorian

Sep 1, 2025 19:00

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corndalorian

Sep 1, 2025 11:26

☕️☀️

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corndalorian

Sep 1, 2025 15:03

Moar live streams 🚀

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corndalorian

Sep 1, 2025 13:17

🤣🚀

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corndalorian

Sep 1, 2025 13:02

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DuneMessias

Sep 4, 2025 06:23

Just another morning on Nostr.

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

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§🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases

§1. Amethyst - v1.03.0: Built-in video recording

Amethyst is a Nostr client for Android, and this release adds built-in video recording with a new “record and post video” button. This update improves live streaming by activating streams in the top feed bubble, enhances visibility of authors, and enables custom TextToSpeech engines. It also fixes crashing relay URIs, relay settings duplication, and streaming flag issues while improving crash report handling. Other refinements include better URL error handling, memory management for follow lists, basic support for expiring DMs, and smoother posting, streaming, and relay management.

• Developed by: @VitorPamplona, @⚡ Dee Kay ⚡🇸🇪🇬🇧🇨🇿🇧🇷🇦🇹, @KotlinGeek
• Source: https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/tag/v1.03.0

§2. Coracle - 0.6.20

Coracle is an experimental Nostr client designed to harness the power of multiple relays, letting users browse, filter, zap, and create custom feeds for a personalized Nostr experience. This latest release fixes duplicate follow actions in onboarding, feed controls changing themselves, long-form topic chips, and a scroll bug. It also removes global feeds, ensures only non-muted events count in reply counts, improves Zap receipt fetching, and fixes the “show anyway” button behavior.

• Developed by: @jlrs…ynqn
• Source: https://github.com/coracle-social/coracle/releases/tag/0.6.20

§3. Nowser - 1.3.0

Nowser is a secure Nostr key management and signing app for iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux, supporting multiple authentication methods. This release includes Android shortcut image resizing, fixes for download status updates and web app client issues (Following.space, Nostter), sets Android WebView dark mode, changes the default NESC relay, upgrades the Flutter version, and applies various UI and bug fixes.

• Developed by: @9yeq…zqwk
• Source: https://github.com/haorendashu/nowser/releases/tag/1.3.0

§4. Oxchat App - v1.4.11

0xchat App is a secure messaging application built on the Nostr protocol, enabling private and decentralized communication without relying on central servers. The latest release, v1.4.11, removes MLS group functionality, adds support for the Urdu language, and fixes several bugs to improve overall stability and user experience.

• Developed by: @0td4…x2wl
• Source: https://github.com/0xchat-app/0xchat-app-main/releases/tag/v1.4.11-release

§5. Coop - v0.2.5

Coop is a simple, fast, and reliable Nostr client designed for secure messaging across all platforms. This release addresses performance issues by fixing high CPU usage and correcting the handling of list indices, resulting in smoother and more efficient operation. This was the latest release, and there was also a release of v0.2.4 last week.

• Developed by: @reya
• Source: https://github.com/lumehq/coop/releases/tag/v0.2.5

§6. Primal Android App - 2.5.8

Primal Android App is Primal’s Nostr client for Android devices, offering a seamless way to connect and engage on Nostr. This release introduces full wallet support for NWC with features like balance tracking, transaction history, invoice creation, and payments, along with a new live streaming player. This update also delivers a visual facelift and important stability fixes for an improved user experience.

• Developed by: Aleksandar Ilic
• Source: https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-android-app/releases/tag/2.5.8

§7. Nostr Ynstant Messenger (NYM) - v1.9.11

Nostr Ynstant Messenger is a lightweight ephemeral chat client built on the Nostr protocol, designed for anonymous and temporary messaging with integration to Bitchat. This release introduces a hotfix that highlights a user’s own messages and adds a new Bitchat-style theme with multicolored users, enhancing both usability and the overall chat experience. This was the latest release, and there were also releases of v1.8.11, v1.8.10, v1.7.9, v1.6.9, v1.5.9, v1.5.8, v1.5.7, and v1.5.6 last week.

• Developed by: @Luxas
• Source: https://github.com/Spl0itable/NYM/releases/tag/v1.9.11

§🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases

§1. Dart Nostr Development Kit (NDK) - v0.5.1

Dart Nostr Development Kit (NDK) is a Dart library that streamlines building on Nostr by providing tools and utilities for developers. The latest release includes fixes for parsing rumor events without signatures, dependency updates, and improvements to NIP-46 support with bunkers, mock remote signer, tests, and event signer. It also adds user agent configuration, documentation updates, an AI guide, caching fixes, and overall stability enhancements.

• Developed by: @w9ll…3tur, @Russell, @fmar
• Source: https://github.com/relaystr/ndk/releases/tag/v0.5.1

§2. Nostr Game Engine (ngengine) - 0.1.1

Ngengine is a game engine and framework for building games and applications integrated with the Nostr ecosystem and peer-to-peer networking. This release introduces numerous bug fixes and improvements, with the standout feature being in-game advertising powered by the Nostrads protocol, enabling privacy-friendly and permissionless ads within the Nostr ecosystem.

• Developed by: @rblb
• Source: https://github.com/NostrGameEngine/ngengine/releases/tag/0.1.1

§🌐 Relay Updates and Releases

§No Relay Updates and Releases for last week.

§👋 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 fortieth 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