Dec 21, 2025

πŸ—žοΈ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap πŸš€ (22nd December 2025 - 55th Edition)

The 55th dose of your weekly Nostr Newsletter

🧠 Quote of the Week

Instead of "protocol" we should call Nostr a "system".

πŸ”₯ Community Highlights

1. Jurjen shares how he enjoyed the TechTuesday last week πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

2. Let’s call Nostr this way 🫑

3. Here is how plebs tend to be to Nostr πŸ‘‡

4. The phrase is short. But the meaning is so deep πŸ‘‡

5. Let’s help them to make their Nostr Client better 🀝

6. This is 100% true! πŸ‘

7. A lady nostrich is gonna quit πŸ˜”

8. A nice discussion with Amethyst Creator and a Memes creator πŸŽ™οΈ

9. Congratulations for your 15th Anniversary love birds ❀️

10. A great inspiration from Uncle to the community 😍

11. The Community could make Nostr better 🫢

12. A question from Avi Burra to the X community ❓

13. A popular bitcoiner celebrates his birthday πŸŽ‚

14. The 3 year Nostr Anniversary of β€œThe Daniel” πŸŽ‰

15. Let’s wait and watch πŸ‘€

🌱 Ecosystem Growth

Nostr is growing fast!

According to 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 nostr.watch, there are more than 950 relays online in around 50 countries at the moment.

According to npub.world/stats,

During last week:

  • Total Users: 1,629, compared to 1,690 users the week before

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According to stats.nostr.band,

During last week:

  • Total Zaps: 29,803, compared to 33,052 zaps the week before

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  • Total Zap senders: 3,118, compared to 2,589 plebs the week before

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  • Total Zap Amount: 7,097,192, compared to 7,961,647 sats the week before

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  • Total Events: 3,702,272, compared to 3,536,158 events the week before

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

πŸŽ“ Educational Guides

1. Nostr Start Guide for Beginners | Account setup & wallet connect for Zaps

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuqs4bYGEEk

2. Nostr Basics

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWRDW9uR5dQ

πŸ“… Upcoming Events

1. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - January 2026

πŸ“… Date: Sunday, January 4, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MST πŸ“ Location: Jives Coffee Lounge 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States

πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: Chris Curran

πŸ”— Event: www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyjccbgb

2. POSSE content with Drupal using Nostr at FOSDEM 2026 - January 2026

πŸ“… Date: Saturday, January 31, 2026 ⏰ Time: 5.35 PM - 6.00 PM CET (UTC+1) πŸ“ Location: Room: K.3.401 Track: Collaboration and Content Management UniversitΓ© libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solbosch Campus Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles / Brussels, Belgium

πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers: FOSDEM,

πŸ”— Event: fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SDDNPS-posse-content-drupal-nostr

3. Nostr Nights #1 - February 2026

πŸ“… Date: Monday, February 2, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 8.30 PM CST πŸ“ Location: 1910 21st Ave S 1910 21st Ave S, Nashville, TN, USA

πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers:

πŸ”— Event: www.meetup.com/bitcoinpark/events/312318620

πŸ“° Nostr in the Media

1. Soapbox Sessions Episode 16: Dumbin’ Down the Tech

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adh5Mgb4NmI

2. Hivetalk Vibe Coding Session Replay: December 16, 2025

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu1YustEdXs

3. Exploring the Pyramid Relay for Nostr

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSAX9hO3vbk

4. Deep Dive: Nostr as Freedom Tech, Purple Pilling, Government Role & Bitcoin Politics

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeE5oR50Jsc

⚑ 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 zaplife.lol by for providing this data.

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

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Zapped

  1. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 1041
    • Sats Earned: 2k

  2. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 976
    • Sats Earned: 72k

  3. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 392
    • Sats Earned: 53k

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Zappers

  1. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 1095
    • Sats Spent: 130k

  2. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 372
    • Sats Spent: 1k

  3. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 236
    • Sats Spent: 12k

πŸ’° Top 3: Most Sats Received

  1. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 697k
    • Zaps Received: 369

  2. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 473k
    • Zaps Received: 42

  3. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 209k
    • Zaps Received: 43

πŸ’° Top 3: Most Sats Sent

  1. Name:

    • Sats Spent: 256k
    • Zaps Sent: 15

  2. Name:

    • Sats Spent: 228k
    • Zaps Sent: 37

  3. Name:

    • Sats Spent: 184k
    • Zaps Sent: 6

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

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Zapped

    • Zaps Received: 53
    • Sats Earned: 7k

    • Zaps Received: 44
    • Sats Earned: 7k

    • Zaps Received: 42
    • Sats Earned: 22k

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Sats

    • Sats Earned: 51k
    • Zaps Received: 13

    • Sats Earned: 23k
    • Zaps Received: 10

    • Sats Earned: 22k
    • Zaps Received: 42

πŸ˜‚ Nostr Memes

πŸ› οΈ Tools, Updates and Releases

1. Snort - v0.4.0

Snort is a high-performance Nostr client built with React, focused on fast content discovery, media handling, and social interactions. This update adds a Discover page for trending content, a media tab for multiple media note types, and a Follow Sets page for browsing connections. It integrates Nests audio rooms, replaces NIP-96 with Blossom storage, and upgrades the build system to Bun. Other improvements include better profile caching, query handling, auto-translation, and WoT filtering, making content loading faster, media management smoother, and social interactions more seamless.

Developed by:

2. Amber - v4.0.6-pre2

Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that securely manages and signs Nostr events. In this release it improves stability and performance by fixing crashes on permission and app editing screens, handling decryption parsing errors gracefully, adding a signer cache for faster operations, and optimizing screen recomposition and task finishing, enhancing reliability and responsiveness for end users. This was the latest and there was also the releases of v4.0.6-pre1 and v4.0.5 last week.

Developed by:

3. Nostria (Android) - v1.0.8

Nostria is a decentralized social networking app that lets users fully control their profiles and data while exploring a censorship-resistant network. In this release, it fixes the β€œShare to Nostria” feature, enabling users to seamlessly share photos and videos directly from their devices, improving usability and content sharing for end users. This was the latest release and there was also the release of v1.0.7 last week.

Developed by:

4. 0xchat App - v1.5.2

0xchat is a secure chat app built on the Nostr protocol. In this release it introduces major usability improvements such as an updated image picker, Markdown support in posts, GIF uploads, custom emojis, and global posts with relay-based filtering. It also integrates new Napps (Mutable, Grimoire, Nym, Nostube) and Filedrop file server support, while fixing bugs related to contact sorting, account switching, login splash screens, and language translation, enhancing both functionality and user experience.

Developed by:

5. Plebs App - v2.7.12

Plebs is a censorship-resistant, decentralized video platform built on the Nostr protocol. This release features a complete redesign and refactor, adding a following list, watched history, live and shorts videos, draft-saving before publishing, content filter packs, multiple language support, profile editing, zaps in comments, mute and reporting features, and a real watched count for videos. It also introduces an analytics dashboard and fixes light/dark mode issues and page-loading bugs, significantly improving usability, content management, and user experience. This was the biggest release of the week and there was also some more releases last week. (v2.7.31, v2.7.30, v2.7.28, v2.7.27, v2.7.26, v2.7.25, v2.7.24, v2.7.23, v2.7.22, v2.7.21, v2.7.20, v2.7.18, v2.7.15, v2.7.14, v2.7.13)

Developed by:

6. Vector - v0.2.3

Vector is a decentralized communication platform on the Nostr Protocol, offering end-to-end encryption, zero metadata leakage, and plausible deniability. This release adds Web Profiles, redesigned voice messaging, file previews, image compression, window persistence, and a polished UI with animated headers and mini-avatars. On-demand decryption improves performance, while bug fixes address startup flash, logout issues, unread markers, download stability, and emoji search, giving users a smoother, faster, and more reliable chat experience.

Developed by:

🎁 Developer Tools / Guides, Updates and Releases

1. Mostro Core - v0.6.57

Mostro Core is a Rust-based library providing peer-to-peer functionality for decentralized applications, forming the foundation for the Mostro daemon. This update reverts previous protocol changes, adds optional user info fields to the Order payload, and introduces three new fields in the Order struct. It also updates crypto dependencies, fixes Clippy issues with older dependencies, and updates the Rust toolchain to 1.90.0. These changes improve compatibility, enable richer order data, and ensure the library is more stable and easier to maintain for developers building decentralized applications.

Developed by:

2. Gitplaza - v0.26.0

Gitplaza is a desktop Nostr client focused on managing Git-related activity. This release adds support for rendering patch diffs and revisions, displays Markdown in patch views and comments, includes patches in activity and inbox filters, differentiates patch revisions from root patches, and shows e-tag or a-tag Git references in the event view. Performance improvements reduce unnecessary Git status queries, and bug fixes ensure comments and self-referencing tags are properly handled, making code review, collaboration, and tracking more efficient for users.

Developed by:

🌐 Relay Updates and Releases

No Relay Updates and Releases for last week.

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

🫑 Credits

Thank you for this amazing idea!

A big shoutout to for your generous patronage!

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

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