Nov 24, 2025

πŸ—žοΈ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap πŸš€ (24th November 2025 - 51st Edition)

The 51st dose of your weekly Nostr Newsletter

🧠 Quote of the Week

β€œNostr is whatever users, not devs, want it to be.”

πŸ”₯ Community Highlights

1. This is the truth about Nostr πŸ‘‡

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 πŸ“š

5. Seems Nostrasia was such a nice meetup 😍

6. A heartbreaking story with a life lesson 😒

7. Let’s learn english on Nostr πŸ“–

8. That’s the power of Nostr? πŸ’ͺ

9. Nostr is better than X indeed πŸ‘

10. This is really true by the Nostr founder πŸ‘‡

11. Yep, that is Nostr πŸ˜‰

12. Hmm, something to think πŸ€”

13. Nostr is awesome 🫑

14. A special statement from Mastodon CEO πŸ“’

15. This is the truth about vibe coding πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»

16. A Pretty pleb celebrates her 29th birthday in Nostr πŸŽ‚

🌱 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 870 relays online in more than 45 countries at the moment.

According to npub.world/stats,

During last week:

  • Total Users: 2,516, compared to 3,569 users the week before

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According to stats.nostr.band,

During last week:

  • 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

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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. DIVINE NOSTR TUTORIAL

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNzCsBtF6gc

πŸ“… Upcoming Events

1. Nostr Devs El Salvador - November 2025

πŸ“… Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2025 ⏰ Time: 5.00 PM - 7.00 PM CST πŸ“ Location: Bitcoin Embassy El Salvador MQ99+MX2, San Salvador, El Salvador

πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Organizers:

πŸ”— Event: www.satlantis.io/events/1297/Nostr-Devs-El-Salvador

2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - December 2025

πŸ“… Date: Sunday, December 7, 2025 ⏰ 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/mlcdqtyhcqbkb

πŸ“° Nostr in the Media

1. Rabble explains how diVine revives Vine on an open source platform that users can trust

image www.youtube.com/shorts/DN0XYGPQaeg

2. Soapbox Sessions Episode 12: Bat Drones

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R6wPGco_eg

3. Nostr fixes Copyright's broken bargain

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9nS3YNJw4c

4. Shakespeare & Nostr

image www.youtube.com/shorts/KbN2dCj7t48

5. The Simple Way to Run a Lightning Node Using Nostr!

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

6. Will Nostr be the new queen of social media?

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ_Tn3-eMfg

7. HenkyPenky - Nostr gyorstalpalΓ³

image www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0bAgnt_5w4

8. Inovaçáes para a Rede Nostr

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

9. La prΓ³xima gran revoluciΓ³n digital: Nostr segΓΊn El Negro

image 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 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: 1003
    • Sats Earned: 2k

  2. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 831
    • Sats Earned: 79k

  3. Name:

    • Zaps Received: 382
    • Sats Earned: 25k

πŸ”₯ Top 3: Most Zappers

  1. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 775
    • Sats Spent: 6k

  2. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 326
    • Sats Spent: 978

  3. Name:

    • Zaps Sent: 295
    • Sats Spent: 188k

πŸ’° Top 3: Most Sats Received

  1. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 498k
    • Zaps Received: 294

  2. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 464k
    • Zaps Received: 253

  3. Name:

    • Sats Earned: 329k
    • Zaps Received: 49

πŸ’° Top 3: Most Sats Sent

  1. Name:

    • Sats Spent: 450k
    • Zaps Sent: 43

  2. Name:

    • Sats Spent: 285k
    • Zaps Sent: 73

  3. Name:

    • Sats Spent: 214k
    • Zaps Sent: 77

πŸ˜‚ Nostr Memes

πŸ› οΈ 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: Source: 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: Source: 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: Source: 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: Source: 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: Source: 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: Source: github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine/releases/tag/v0.9.0

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-First 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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