🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap - 15th September 2025 🚀

🧠 Quote of the Week

“Big Tech sells your data. Nostr gives you your voice. ⚡”

🔥 Community Highlights

1. The latest revolution.social with Cory Doctorow

2. Great news from Jack about Bitchat

3. This pretty pleb has realized how valuable Nostr is

4. This contribution to the freedom is commendable

5. Memes master feels comfortable in Nostr

6. That’s Nostr series #7 by HODL

7. Seems like we can watch a nice Nostr and Bitcoin documentary soon

8. There should have a solution for this trouble to protect the community base

9. He got the best decision ever

10. Yes, it is worth dying

11. We are not nerds

12. This is the main innovation of Nostr

🌱 Ecosystem Growth

Nostr is growing fast!

Overview

• Pubkeys: 44705120
• Users: 1193410
• Trusted users: 195328
• Events: 608988686
• Posts: 161800348
• Zaps: 5447800
• Zap amount: 2527296192 sats

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

During last week:

• Total zaps: 31,931, compared to 35,202 zaps the week before

• Total zap senders: 671, compared to 750 plebs the week before

• Total zap receivers: 157, compared to 172 plebs the week before

• Total zap amount: 7,308,787, compared to 10,235,498 sats the week before

• Total events: 2,661,742, compared to 2,281,590 events the week before

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

🎓 Educational Guides

No Educational Guides for last week.

📅 Upcoming Events

1. Nostr Hackday Berlin - October 2025

• 📅 Date: Sunday, October 05, 2025

• ⏰ Time: 10.00am and open-ended CEST

• 📍 Location: Berlin, Germany

• 🤹‍♀️ Organizers:

• 🔗 Event:

2. Nostr Valley 2.0 - October 2025

• 📅 Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025

• ⏰ Time: 9:30 PM - 1:30 AM EDT

• 📍 Location: [Happy Valley Brewing Company, 137, Elmwood Street, State College, Centre County, Pennsylvania, 16801, United States](Happy Valley Brewing Company, 137, Elmwood Street, State College, Centre County, Pennsylvania, 16801, United States)

• 🤹‍♀️ Organizers:

• 🔗 Event: nostrvalley.com/schedule

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: www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyhcpbdb/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

📰 Nostr in the Media

1. Nostr zaps make Instagram likes look pathetic

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www.youtube.com/shorts/MQ2YMOkDsEM

2. Uncensorable Future

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvYqaAvVuss

3. Building a Life of Freedom

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xkui1zZN5w

4. How Nostr Makes Bitcoin Feel Real

www.youtube.com/shorts/nklx8HGbEuQ

5. From LinkedIn Jail to Nostr & Bluesky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0Z5yJo_kBA

6. Bitcoin, Nostr and Sovereign Engineering with Gigi

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKN1y7SxnJg

⚡ 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:

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

1. Name:

   • Zaps Received: 855
   • Sats Earned: 283k

2. Name:

   • Zaps Received: 694
   • Sats Earned: 122k

3. Name:

   • Zaps Received: 405
   • Sats Earned: 44k

🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers

1. Name:

   • Zaps Sent: 301
   • Sats Spent: 14k

2. Name:

   • Zaps Sent: 288
   • Sats Spent: 6k

3. Name:

   • Zaps Sent: 191
   • Sats Spent: 3k

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received

1. Name:

   • Sats Earned: 663k
   • Zaps Received: 396

2. Name:

   • Sats Earned: 283k
   • Zaps Received: 857

3. Name:

   • Sats Earned: 181k
   • Zaps Received: 116

💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent

1. Name:

   • Sats Spent: 102k
   • Zaps Sent: 7

2. Name:

   • Sats Spent: 94k
   • Zaps Sent: 20

3. Name:

   • Sats Spent: 90k
   • Zaps Sent: 16

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

🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

1. • Zaps Received: 192
   • Sats Earned: 193k

2. • Zaps Received: 118
   • Sats Earned: 20k

3. • Zaps Received: 106
   • Sats Earned: 50k

🔥 Top 3: Most Sats

1. • Sats Earned: 193k
   • Zaps Received: 192

2. • Sats Earned: 122k
   • Zaps Received: 94

3. • Sats Earned: 50k
   • Zaps Received: 106

😂 Nostr Memes

🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases

1. Plebs vs. Zombies - New Tool

Plebs vs. Zombies is a Nostr utility that helps you keep your follow list healthy by identifying and cleaning up dormant accounts. Over time, inactive npubs can pile up like “zombies,” bloating your following list, consuming bandwidth, and putting extra load on relays. This tool makes it easy to spot those inactive users and manage them, so your Nostr experience stays light, efficient, and alive.

• Developed by:
• Source: github.com/dmnyc/plebs-vs-zombies

2. Amber - v4.0.1

Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android that keeps users’ nsec keys secure in a dedicated app, ensuring safe event signing. This release fixes reproducibility issues with added README instructions, improves validation when sending events from different users, ensures proper reject responses when using intents, corrects field updates on the edit permissions screen, and updates the project to Gradle 9. This is the latest release, and there was also the release of v4.0.1-pre1 last week.

• Developed by:
• Source: github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v4.0.1

3. Coop - v0.2.7

Coop is a simple, fast, and reliable Nostr client for secure messaging across all platforms. This release improves handling of user profiles, introduces the ability to resend failed messages, and includes a refactor of event fetching for better performance and stability. This is the latest release, and there was also the release of v0.2.6 last week.

• Developed by:
• Source: github.com/lumehq/coop/releases/tag/v0.2.7

4. Bitchat - 1.3.4

Bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app with dual transport architecture, combining local Bluetooth mesh networks for offline communication and the internet-based Nostr protocol for global reach, all without accounts, phone numbers, or central servers. The latest release, v1.3.4, known as the “tor release,” enables Tor by default to enhance IP address privacy, improves Nostr relay error handling, and delivers numerous bug fixes for a more secure and stable messaging experience.

Developed by: Source: github.com/permissionlesstech/bitchat/releases/tag/v1.3.4

🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases

No Developer Tools, Updates and Releases for last week.

🌐 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 forty first recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #nostrrecap, and let’s keep #grownostr together.

🙌 Credits

Thank you for giving me this idea!

A big shoutout to for his generous patronage!

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

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