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#1 🧠 Quote of the Week
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“Keys over accounts, protocols over platforms.”


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#2 🔥 Community Highlights
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1. The latest revolution.social talk with the co-founder and CEO of Substack
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In the latest episode of revolution.social I talk to the co-founder and ceo of Substack, Chris Best. He is trying to navigate building an open advertising free platform, lock-in, and debates over what content they should or shouldn’t allow on their platform.

https://youtu.be/Xz2dIgQbPL4?si=3vg57LNqiPn1C0Z_


2. A lady pleb is gonna survive the day with zaps
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Yo I’m trying to survive on NOSTR today.

I’m going to live on not only the #Bitcoin standard, BUT the NOSTR standard 😎

So what does that mean? I’m going to earn as many zaps as possible AND use that to survive my day on the island

Let the games BEGIN


3. A nice discussion between two Nostr enthusiasts
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Nostr Zaps Make Instagram Likes Look Pathetic

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Paul Keating and I explore how zaps are superior to likes, spark genuine curiosity, and trigger real engagement. Would you rather have $1,000 worth of bitcoin, or a 1000 likes on Instagram?



4. Well said
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Keys over accounts, protocols over platforms.


5. Nostr is better than every other social media platform
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Instagram - 1,086 likes
Nostr - 1,058,000 sats ($1,234)

Social media is simply better with payments. Bitcoin is the glue that connects the world & makes this possible.

This is a small win, but it’s fun to imagine a world where sats are flowing to all types of content.

Subscriptions paid with sats. “Zap walls” to unlock content. Streaming sats for short or long form video. And whatever else we can come up with to empower creators and keep a sane place online. Will be fun.



6. A nice real-life example how much important Nostr is
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nostr is an awesome way for me to interact with listeners of my two shows and for them to interact with each other, directly without permission

by that measure alone it is already a success


7. It is a bother indeed, more value needed to Nostr
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People who make notes saying: “I’m gonna zap everyone who responds to this” bother me. It’s like paying to advertise yourself. It’s not V4V and the vast majority of “people” who respond to these notes are not “people” I see regularly using nostr. They just come out of the woodwork when money is on the table.

Both sides of the spectrum (the shillers AND the beggars) should contemplate how to bring actual value to the space.


8. Nostr and Bitcoin are mutually bound
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Bitcoin is already a medium of exchange.

Nostr proves this with robust empirical evidence.


9. Looks like it’s gonna release a Discord alternative for Nostr
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it's been a while since i've used Discord. anyone still use it often? what are your favorite features from Discord that you'd love to see in a nostr enable alternative?


10. Do you agree with this?
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Nostr is less engaging than Twitter.
This is a feature. The death cult eyeball hooks that keep you doom scrolling for hrs on corporate platforms just don't exist in nostr. You hop on, check in, read a few interesting posts, then hop off and go touch grass 👌


11. Will they embrace Nostr?
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We need to get Nostr on college campuses. The Bitcoin community is too boomer and doesn't even realize it.


12. A nice plan by
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I want to see how far we can push Amethyst into both the decentralization and privacy dimensions. The next step is to implement Pokey and kill our notification server. Then Negentropy and local databases. Then open more Tor exit nodes to split the traffic. Then go back to P2P research and bitchat. Maybe MLS and cashu wallets too. Hopefully you all can help us fund all of that. :)


13. A beginner nostrich is playing the violin very well
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Third post, trying a quick video upload. I’m playing an Irish fiddle tune I like called King of the Fairies… recorded on an iPhone with ocean views 🌊 I set up a wallet for zaps! If you like the video and want to help me test out the wallet, zap away! Super excited to try this out for the first time #plebchain #decentralized #music #introductions


14. Nostr must have other contents also than just Bitcoin
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The biggest problem of Nostr is that most of the content is still bitcoin-focused. That's a great problem to have.

If you like anything other than Bitcoin, your voice will be unique. Be the change you want to see in the world and contribute. Invite your friends. Be free.


15. A new pleb is trying to getting used to Nostr
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My first post, I'm discovering Nostr and Primal. I don't yet know what I can and can't post, or who will see my posts.

So, let me introduce myself: my name is Vincent, and I live in Corsica.

I spend as much time as possible in nature with my dog, Vasco, a Mini American Shepherd who follows me everywhere, all the time.

On my outings, I like to take photos and videos, especially of sunsets over the Mediterranean Sea.

So I'll start by sharing a video of Vasco and a sunset on the beach; it pretty much sums up what's important to me.





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#3 🌱 Ecosystem Growth
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Nostr is growing fast!


Overview

- Pubkeys: 43945773
- Users: 1188758
- Trusted users: 204087
- Events: 595311714
- Posts: 156829669
- Zaps: 5268657
- Zap amount: 2093830800 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 800 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment.


During last week:


- Total zaps: 40,483, compared to 36,522 zaps the week before




- Total zap senders: 1,074, compared to 852 plebs the week before




- Total zap receivers: 241, compared to 185 plebs the week before




- Total zap amount: 7,862,354, compared to 8,815,036 sats the week before




- Total events: 3,399,805, compared to 3,184,807 events the week before




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


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#4 🎓 Educational Guides
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1. This video will answer some of your questions about relays



https://youtu.be/TFH7Xr0cJ0w


2. What Are Nostr Signer Apps and How They Protect Your Nostr Private Key



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNQsak2d7jk


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#5 📅 Upcoming Events
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1. Purple Konnektiv meetup - August 2025


📅 Date: August 29 - 31, 2025
📍 Location: Baden-Wuerttemberg, Southern Germany
🤹‍♀️ Organizers:

🔗 Event:
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PurpleKonnektiv will have 2 communitiy calls to discuss our next meetup!

Our next meetup will take place in southern germany in the beautiful Baden-Wuerttemberg on 29.-31.08.2025 💜

The community calls will take place on HiveTalk:
- 25th May at 7pm CET
- 1st June at 7pm CET

We want to come together and talk about a place to stay and how we gonna plan the meetup.

If you're interested to join, hit us up! We will send you the link. 🐝

#PurpleKonnektiv
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#PurpleKonnektiv found a house to stay in the Black Forest, Germany and we have some places left!

When? 29th to 31th august

We have several rooms to sleep and we will cook & eat together. Exploring the nature around will be part of it all, too! You can also rent a hotel room nearby if that would feel better for you. :)

So if you just want to connect with Nostriches in a smaller group of people or want to have a closer feeling of community, write us a DM or leave a message under this note. 💜

Following people will be surely part of it and may also bring their family. And we hope a few more will join. Thanks for your trust guys and girls! 💜 Lets create a wonderful time together 🫂












2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - September 2025


📅 Date: Sunday, September 7, 2025
⏰ Time: 12:00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT
📍 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/mlcdqtyhcmbkb/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events


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#6 📰 Nostr in the Media
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1. LIBERTY FARMER - HAM RADIO, NOSTR, AND BITCOIN



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Rd59bMEJE


2. Leaving X for Nostr: Why Time & Free Speech Matter

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Qv8eDG7JeGI


3. Does social media control all of us?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r1GA9V5BTw


4. Susie Ward on Privacy, Nostr & Censorship Resistance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGd8yNLVDbU


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#7 ⚡ Most Zapped Last Week
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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 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: 834
Sats Earned: 65k


2. Name:
Zaps Received: 711
Sats Earned: 67k


3. Name:
Zaps Received: 657
Sats Earned: 66k


🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers


1. Name:
Zaps Sent: 943
Sats Spent: 23k


2. Name: Tina’s Fight Against Cancer
Zaps Sent: 906
Sats Spent: 7k


3. Name:
Zaps Sent: 523
Sats Spent: 57k


💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received


1. Name: Fountain Boost Bot
Sats Earned: 664k
Zaps Received: 393


2. Name:
Sats Earned: 611k
Zaps Received: 312


3. Name:
Sats Earned: 399k
Zaps Received: 654


💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent


1. Name:
Sats Spent: 718k
Zaps Sent: 174


2. Name:
Sats Spent: 428k
Zaps Sent: 75


3. Name:
Sats Spent: 276k
Zaps Sent: 132


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


🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped


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It's absolutely shocking that there is no significant political opposition against the erosion of online privacy rights that is happening in front of our eyes all across the western world.

Nobody is coming to help us anon. You know what to do.
Zaps Received: 89
Sats Earned: 6k


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The greatest scam in history...

The creation of the Federal Reserve:



Shared via https://pullthatupjamie.ai
Zaps Received: 83
Sats Earned: 22k


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Updated my Xitter name and lost blue-check privileges until the overlords verify that my name really is "L0la L33tz is more fun on Nostr"

This is a great feature for people who rely on X visibility for income

pls zap so I don't starve to death

Zaps Received: 75
Sats Earned: 54k


🔥 Top 3: Most Sats


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just inspired me

4 Bars of soapminer.com soap, your choice of what I have in stock for 30k sats, includes shipping in Continental US. #zapsnag
Sats Earned: 120k
Zaps Received: 8


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I want to see how far we can push Amethyst into both the decentralization and privacy dimensions. The next step is to implement Pokey and kill our notification server. Then Negentropy and local databases. Then open more Tor exit nodes to split the traffic. Then go back to P2P research and bitchat. Maybe MLS and cashu wallets too. Hopefully you all can help us fund all of that. :)
Sats Earned: 111k
Zaps Received: 40


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Bonsoir nostr !

Le Bogolan from MALI 🇲🇱 Le Bogolan est le résultat d'une boue fermentée sur le tissu, aux couleurs de l'Afrique, sable et terre. Au commencement, sa toile de coton blanc est filée et tissée en bandes de 5 cm à 12 cm de large, puis vendue en longs rouleaux.
#nostr
#zaps
#bitcoin
#nostrfr










Sats Earned: 110k
Zaps Received: 6


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My favorite one from the day 🫡😂


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Can you believe this content is free? 😂



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Amazing 🤣🤣🤣



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Made it a gif 💜



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Hard to believe there are still some that haven’t joined nostr 😭


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Pay attention to what people do, not what they say.



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“Not your what?”

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



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#9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
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1. Coracle - 0.6.19

Coracle is an experimental Nostr client designed to harness the full potential of multiple relays, enabling users to browse, filter, zap, and build custom feeds for a curated Nostr experience. This release enhances relay hint reliability, enables DMs via conversation links, improves feed parent fetching, removes profile banners, and introduces better mute functionality with private muting by default. It now broadcasts user relays when publishing, aggressively refreshes user data to avoid race conditions, adds NWC wallet management, and reworks the zaps feature.

Developed by:
Source: https://github.com/coracle-social/coracle/releases/tag/0.6.19


2. Amber - v.3.4.5-pre1

Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android, designed to keep users’ private keys (nsec) securely stored in a dedicated app. This pre-release adds a button in notifications and the AppBar to restart relay connections, retries subscriptions when reconnecting, and attempts relay restarts when message sending fails. It also rechecks encryption type compatibility, reverts multi-window QR code reader support, generates new events on errors to prevent duplicates, sends error notifications when events can’t be delivered, and changes the process to close the app before retrying event sends.

Developed by:
Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v3.4.5-pre1


3. Mostro - v0.14.2

Mostro is a Lightning Network peer-to-peer exchange platform built on Nostr. This release fixes an issue to ensure makers are always notified when their order is taken and adds detailed payment failure information, including the number of attempts and retry intervals.

Developed by: ,
Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro/releases/tag/v0.14.2


4. Coop - v0.2.2

Coop is a simple, fast, and reliable Nostr client for secure messaging across all platforms. With this release introducing refactored subscription handling, improved UI consistency, an updated Flatpak runtime, and enhanced logout behavior. This was the latest release, and there were also releases of v0.2.1 and v0.2.0 last week.

Developed by:
Source: https://github.com/lumehq/coop/releases/tag/v0.2.2


5. Runstr - (feed-0.7.0-20250806-175737)

Runstr is a running app built on Nostr. The latest pre-release updates UI buttons to use consistent theme colors, replaces hardcoded black backgrounds in activity mode buttons, matches the start run button to dashboard styling, standardizes pause/resume/stop buttons, and unifies the color scheme across goals, rewards, and stats cards. This was the latest prerelease, and there were some more prereleases last week.

Developed by:
Source: https://github.com/HealthNoteLabs/Runstr/releases/tag/feed-0.7.0-20250806-175737


6. Primal iOS app - 2.3.56

Primal iOS is the official Nostr client app for iOS, providing users with a seamless way to browse, post, and interact on the Nostr network. The latest update brings smoother feed rendering, improved thread reply user experience, enhanced connectivity, and a better wallet interface, making the app more responsive and user-friendly.

Developed by:
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Hey Primal iOS users! We just rolled out a new build with a bunch of new improvements and fixes. Be sure to try it out!

Here’s what’s new in iOS 2.3.56 :
- Smoother feed rendering
- Improved thread reply UX
- Improved connectivity
- Improved wallet UX

As always, please let us know if you run into any issues!

https://primal.net/downloads?20250805


7. YakiHonne - v1.8.4

YakiHonne is a cross-platform mobile app built with Flutter, designed to offer an intuitive and seamless Nostr experience across iOS, Android, and Zapstore. This release fixes an issue where content translation was not displayed, improving the app’s usability for multilingual users. This was the latest release, and there was also the release of v1.8.3 last week.

Developed by: Boukhalfa Seddik
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📢 YakiHonne mobile v1.8.2 is now live on iOS, Android, and Zapstore!

* Adding ability for automatic cache purging.
* Adding support for custom translation service.
* Adding relays search in relays feed settings.
* Adding Support for base64 images display.
* Adding render to the profile about content.
* General improvements.
* Bugs fixes.

⚡️ Upgrade now for a safer, smarter YakiHonne! 👇
•App Store (iOS): https://apps.apple.com/cn/app/yakihonne/id6472556189
•Google Play (Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yakihonne.yakihonne&pcampaignid=web_share
•ZapStore: https://zapstore.dev/


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#10 🎁 Developer Tools, Updates and Releases
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1. Pynostr - v0.7.0

Pynostr is a Python library for working with the Nostr protocol, providing developers with tools to interact with events, relays, and NIPs. This release updates the README installation section, adds REPOSTS to the event kind enum, introduces DM decryption support, fixes a NotRenderableError in table rows, and adds NIP-45 support for enhanced protocol compatibility.

Developed by: John Pinto, Honza S. Copak, Nicholas Sandomeno, ,
Source: https://github.com/holgern/pynostr/releases/tag/v0.7.0


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#11 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
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No Relay Updates and Releases for this week.


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👋 Stay in Touch & Zap
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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 thirty-sixth recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #nostrrecap, and let’s keep #grownostr together.


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🙌 Credits
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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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