• “Theres enough stuff built here, starting to think the most valuable use of my time is to start promoting freedom tech on social media like instagram. Posting every day, viral hooks, etc. not sure what else will bring the masses here more effectively.
• Otherwise all this work is at risk of becoming a tech graveyard”
• 1. The most precious thing for us in the world is our parents. Let’s wish her father beats the disease ❤️
• 2. Warsaw is ready for the best Bitcoin cultural event in the world 😍
• 3. Nature is the way to cure your mind ❤️
• 4. This proves centralized social platforms are not for us 🤮
• 5. This would be nice 😍
• 6. Good news from Umbrel 👇🏻
• 7. This game gonna be insane 🔥
• 8. This is true. Nostr needs more promo 👇🏻
• 9. She is gonna leave the centralization 👏🏻
• 10. Is it like this really? 🤔
• 11. A precious life lesson from a popular nostrich 👇🏻
• 12. A Writer onboards Nostr ✍🏻
• 13. A nostrich becomes a father 👨🏻‍🍼
• Nostr is growing fast!
• According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics,
• Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days):
• Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists):
• According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,
• According to https://npub.world/stats,
• During last week:
• 1. Evade Censorship with Nostr
• 2. How to have UNCENSORABLE internet using NostrVPN
• 1. Nostr meetup - June 2026
• 2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - June 2026
• 3. Nostr London Meetup (2140) - June 2026
• 1. Living 100% on Bitcoin, Nostr & Nature
• 2. GitHub is cracking - the Hungarian Nostr alternative is being built
• 3. Bitcoin, Nostr & Freedom Tech
• 4. VaultChat — Private Nostr Messenger
• 5. The Internet: A Corporate Hijacking of Digital Freedom?
• 🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
• 🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
• 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
• 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
• 🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
• 🔥 Top 3: Most Sats
• 1. VaultChat - v1.0.0 (Groups, EN/RO, Decoy PIN) - New Tool
• 2. Amber - v6.1.0
• 3. Jumble - v26.5.7
• 4. Nostria - v3.1.44
• 5. Shosho - v0.16.0
• 6. Nymchat - v3.67.421
• 7. Vector - v0.4.0 (Pre-release)
• 8. Nostur iOS - v1.28.0
• 9. Nostr VPN - v4.0.48
• 10. Nostrord - v1.2.0
• 11. Pyramid - v1.2.10
• 1. Nostr Java - v1.3.0
• 2. Noscrypt - v0.1.14
• 3. Mostro Core - v0.12.0
• 4. Routstr Core - v0.4.4-beta (Pre-release)
• 1. GRAIN - v0.7.0
• No Protocol Updates and Releases for last week.

@jb55

§“Theres enough stuff built here, starting to think the most valuable use of my time is to start promoting freedom tech on social media like instagram. Posting every day, viral hooks, etc. not sure what else will bring the masses here more effectively.

§Otherwise all this work is at risk of becoming a tech graveyard”

§1. The most precious thing for us in the world is our parents. Let’s wish her father beats the disease ❤️

§2. Warsaw is ready for the best Bitcoin cultural event in the world 😍

§3. Nature is the way to cure your mind ❤️

§4. This proves centralized social platforms are not for us 🤮

§5. This would be nice 😍

hodlhodl

May 25, 2026 18:05

Did you know that you can eat off of the zaps you’ve earned by shitposting on Nostr? 😂

Here’s how you can do it with the help of @273e7...0f8d2 and @df865...9b264 👇

1. Post a SELL BTC offer for 15K sats in our Lightning Network feature.

2. Choose Gift Card as payment method.

3. When a buyer engage in the contract, open your Nostr app and send 15K sats to the escrow.

4. Instruct the buyer to get a Gift Card of your preferred food delivery app in @df865...9b264 .

5. Purchase whatever you’d like to eat and pay with the gift card the buyer has sent you in exchange for your sats.

6. When the food arrives, enjoy your meal while you release the sats to the buyer! 🥪

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§6. Good news from Umbrel 👇🏻

umbrel

May 26, 2026 10:41

Nostr VPN is now live on the Umbrel App Store!

It turns your Umbrel into a private mesh VPN, aka you can securely reach your Umbrel and all your devices from anywhere in the world.

Think Tailscale, but with no third-party company and no central control server in the middle.

https://apps.umbrel.com/app/nostr-vpn

View full event

§7. This game gonna be insane 🔥

§8. This is true. Nostr needs more promo 👇🏻

§9. She is gonna leave the centralization 👏🏻

§10. Is it like this really? 🤔

§11. A precious life lesson from a popular nostrich 👇🏻

§12. A Writer onboards Nostr ✍🏻

§13. A nostrich becomes a father 👨🏻‍🍼

§Nostr is growing fast!

According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr, there are now over 240 Nostr clients and over 500 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe.

§According to https://nostrarchives.com/analytics,

§Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage (For 7 days):

§👉🏻 Amethyst - 809 Users - 13.1k Notes

§👉🏻 Primal Android - 688 Users - 7.1k Notes

§👉🏻 Primal Web - 559 Users - 3.7k Notes

§Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage (by NIP-65 relay lists):

§👉🏻 http://relay.momostr.pink/ - 297.9k

§👉🏻 http://relay.damus.io/ - 223.3k

§👉🏻 http://relay.primal.net/ - 187.0k

§According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,

§👉🏻 Publishing Users last week: 3.41M (+131.0%)

§👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week: 9.18M (+228.4%)

§👉🏻 All-time Zap Count: 6.83M

§👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount: 42.80 BTC

§👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders: 177.6K

§According to https://npub.world/stats,

§During last week:

§👉🏻 Total Users: 9,126, compared to 7,852 users the week before

Many thanks to the developers of https://nostrarchives.com/analytics, https://stats.andotherstuff.org/ by @JeffG https://npub.world/stats by @pip and all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr for providing these insights.

§1. Evade Censorship with Nostr

@Max

§2. How to have UNCENSORABLE internet using NostrVPN

§1. Nostr meetup - June 2026

📅 Date: Monday, June 01, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.06 PM GMT+5:30 📍 Location: Online

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: ca10921e

🔗 Event:

https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzpjssjg0gfxsvxu0t8tzjkvk8tdxw04qaaya8vn3r6saqhzgzcxaeqqgk2an595cnwwpsxgcrjvekxumnzdgt8t4jn

§2. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - June 2026

📅 Date: Sunday, June 07, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 1.00 PM MDT 📍 Location: Jives Coffee Lounge, 16 Colbrunn Ct, Colorado Springs, CO, United States

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @fractalchris

🔗 Event:

https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-lightning-and-nostr-plebs/events/mlcdqtyjcjbkb/

§3. Nostr London Meetup (2140) - June 2026

📅 Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 9.00 PM BST 📍 Location: TBA

🤹‍♀️ Organizers: @2140.wtf #blockworkgallery

🔗 Event:

https://www.meetup.com/nostr_london/events/308639465/

§1. Living 100% on Bitcoin, Nostr & Nature

@paulinthejungle @efenigson

§2. GitHub is cracking - the Hungarian Nostr alternative is being built

§3. Bitcoin, Nostr & Freedom Tech

@38lk…zeru

§4. VaultChat — Private Nostr Messenger

§5. The Internet: A Corporate Hijacking of Digital Freedom?

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 the creators who received/sent the most engagement:

§🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

1. Name: @fountainboostbot

   • Zaps Received: 307
   • Sats Earned: 513k

2. Name: @calle

   • Zaps Received: 305
   • Sats Earned: 55k

3. Name: @flash

   • Zaps Received: 255
   • Sats Earned: 84k

§🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers

1. Name: @aqstr

   • Zaps Sent: 2733
   • Sats Spent: 121k

2. Name: @FLjustin

   • Zaps Sent: 168
   • Sats Spent: 50k

3. Name: noderunner

   • Zaps Sent: 144
   • Sats Spent: 8k

§💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received

1. Name: @fountainboostbot

   • Sats Earned: 514k
   • Zaps Received: 309

2. Name: @2plu…gy5m

   • Sats Earned: “Not mentioned correctly”
   • Zaps Received: 1

3. Name: @rcr5…df2j

   • Sats Earned: 250k
   • Zaps Received: 1

§💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent

1. Name: @agustinkassis

   • Sats Spent: 1M
   • Zaps Sent: 6

2. Name: @Sattrio

   • Sats Spent: 180k
   • Zaps Sent: 3

3. Name: @KeithMeola

   • Sats Spent: 124k
   • Zaps Sent: 38

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

§🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped

1. calle

   May 29, 2026 20:24

   Huge milestone for Cashu.

   After 3 years of work, we finally have unruggable mints.

   I’m testing the first on-chain Cashu mint running inside a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), where the mint keys are generated entirely within the enclave and remain unknown to the operator.

   That means the operator cannot inflate the ecash supply and cannot access the Bitcoin reserves backing it.

   We’ve moved from trusting operators to relying on hardware-enforced cryptographic guarantees.

   There’s still work to do, but the path forward is clear. This is an incredibly exciting step toward trust-minimized ecash.

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   • Zaps Received: 80
   • Sats Earned: 18k

2. ODELL

   May 27, 2026 14:55

   the orange ties pivoted the prevailing bitcoin narrative from freedom money to saylors meme coin and now people are rightfully asking why they shouldnt just buy ai stocks instead

   the plot was coopted but will be found again

   stack real bitcoin, not that fake shit

   View full event
   • Zaps Received: 47
   • Sats Earned: 8k

3. HODL

   May 30, 2026 11:30

   You know that widely held statistic about how 50% of all marriages end in divorce?

   Not quite.

   About 60% of all first marriages succeed.

   If you are over 25, college educated and have low financial stress the number jumps to 80%.

   The data is skewed heavily by baby boomers (higher divorce rates) and serial divorcees. Roughly 70% of second and third marriages fail.

   Despite current cultural beliefs marriage is good and healthy and on average creates higher satisfaction in both men and women who participate in it.

   View full event
   • Zaps Received: 46
   • Sats Earned: 5k

§🔥 Top 3: Most Sats

1. PF

   May 29, 2026 10:23

   We’re trying to raise money to start making documentaries again. Would the bitcoin community be interested in helping us out? https://youtube.com/@popularfront

   View full event
   • Sats Earned: 211k
   • Zaps Received: 17

2. CalvinJuma

   May 31, 2026 12:27

   Proof of Work, driven by Proof of Community.

   When we started, installing a solar water pump for our community well felt like a distant dream. Today we are at 170,771 /300,000 sats.

   Nostr is proving that global connection creates real -world change. We are less than 130k sats away from securing sustainable water access for our community.

   Help us keep this incredible momentum going. Immediate zaps will directly fund the installation phase. Let’s make this happen today.

   #ValueForValue #NostrStrudels #MutualAid

   View full event
   • Sats Earned: 130k
   • Zaps Received: 3

3. oshi

   May 26, 2026 15:03

   #ZAPSNAG 🚨

   Some joked around by asking for a 5 gallon bucket of #hodlbutter….

   Well, I don’t quite have 5 gallons here, but 5 pounds! It’ll last you an entire year to be sure.

   First one to zap 121k gets it. FREE USA SHIPPING ONLY 🚀

   One hell of a bargain here don’t miss it!

   Bitcoin is money. Use it as such (especially on nostr)

   View full event
   • Sats Earned: 121k
   • Zaps Received: 4

1. corndalorian

   May 29, 2026 18:54

   😂

   View full event

2. corndalorian

   May 29, 2026 11:41

   

   View full event

3. corndalorian

   May 29, 2026 00:08

   You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take 😎

   

   View full event

4. corndalorian

   May 28, 2026 21:15

   

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5. corndalorian

   May 27, 2026 12:12

   

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6. corndalorian

   May 26, 2026 22:00

   

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7. corndalorian

   May 26, 2026 13:25

   

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8. corndalorian

   May 26, 2026 13:52

   

   View full event

9. corndalorian

   May 25, 2026 01:21

   🤷‍♂️

   View full event

10. corndalorian

    May 25, 2026 15:41

    

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11. corndalorian

    May 25, 2026 11:59

    V4V is a simpler life. Happy to be here 🫂

    

    Referenced event not yet available nevent1qqs09…eq9h2ezp

    View full event

12. corndalorian

    May 25, 2026 00:56

    

    View full event

13. DuneMessias

    May 29, 2026 06:29

    GM. Weirdly plausible.

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

    

    View full event

14. DuneMessias

    May 25, 2026 07:01

    GM. Tell me about your GM.

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

    

    View full event

§1. VaultChat - v1.0.0 (Groups, EN/RO, Decoy PIN) - New Tool

VaultChat is a peer-to-peer encrypted messaging app built on the Nostr protocol that removes the need for phone numbers, email registration, or centralized servers. In its first major release, v1.0.0, VaultChat introduces encrypted family and business group chats, English and Romanian localization with automatic language detection, and a Decoy PIN feature that opens a fake empty inbox for plausible deniability. The release also highlights core privacy and security features including NIP-44 v2 end-to-end encryption, biometric and PIN protection, AES-256-GCM encrypted local storage, screenshot blocking, synchronized conversation deletion, and cryptographic identity-based accounts. This was the latest and there were also some more releases last week.

Developed by: blejusca

• Source: https://github.com/blejusca/VaultChat/releases/tag/1.0.0

§2. Amber - v6.1.0

Amber is a nostr event signer for Android. This release improves the app connection and pairing experience, enhances permission management with bulk select/deselect options, fixes several crashes and bunker dialog issues, adds rate limiting for incoming signing intents, improves relay authentication handling, supports PSBT signing, introduces better lifecycle controls for the background service, and adds encrypted application backup and restore for moving signers between devices.

Contributed by: @greenart7c3

• Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v6.1.0

§3. Jumble - v26.5.7

Jumble is a Nostr client designed for browsing relay feeds, posting content, and interacting with the Nostr social graph. The v26.5.7 release adds a GIF picker for posts and DMs, introduces a local drafts system with background retry for unsent posts, redesigns the post editor for a cleaner layout, improves thread and media handling (including correct repost rendering and preserved video aspect ratios), enhances search with suggested follows, improves DM usability and identity verification, strengthens privacy by stripping sensitive metadata from image uploads, and fixes multiple UI and interaction issues across posts, links, and zap counting.

Contributed by: @LeoWandersleb

• Source: https://github.com/CodyTseng/jumble/releases/tag/v26.5.7

§4. Nostria - v3.1.44

Nostria is a Nostr client designed for browsing and interacting with decentralized content. This release adds a “Curated” filter for music discovery, introduces a toggle to filter specific music categories, and removes the previous limit on the number of tracks that can be loaded, improving browsing flexibility and content discovery. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v3.1.43 last week.

Contributed by: @sondreb

• Source: https://github.com/nostria-app/nostria/releases/tag/v3.1.44

§5. Shosho - v0.16.0

Shosho is a Nostr client for live streaming and commerce that enables RTMP-based live broadcasting with integrated Nostr identity, allowing creators to stream, interact with audiences, and manage commerce features within the same platform. The v0.16.0 release introduces a shopping cart system for in-stream purchases, a full seller hub for creating shops and managing products, inventory, shipping, and promotions, and a help center for streamers and sellers, while also adding short-form clips to the feed, improving browsing and stream loading performance, integrating Nostr login for shop management, and fixing playback and UI stability issues.

Contributed by: @Rod

• Source: https://github.com/r0d8lsh0p/shosho-releases/releases/tag/v0.16.0

§6. Nymchat - v3.67.421

Nymchat is a messaging client designed for lightweight, ephemeral, and pseudonymous chat over the Nostr protocol, with bridging support to Bitchat for temporary messaging flows. This release is a hotfix update that adds notifications for missed audio/video calls and resolves an issue where chat conversations were not properly scrollable, improving basic communication reliability and user experience. This was the latest release, and there were a lot more last week.

Contributed by: @Luxas

• Source: https://github.com/Spl0itable/NYM/releases/tag/v3.67.421

§7. Vector - v0.4.0 (Pre-release)

Vector Messenger is a chat app built on the Nostr protocol for censorship-resistant messaging with privacy-focused features. This pre-release introduces a major core rewrite (vector-core) improving performance and stability, adds Tor integration, multi-account support, NIP-46 remote signers, message deletion, custom emoji packs, chat wallpapers, and improved decentralized file handling with Blossom failover. It also enhances group chat syncing, UI/UX (redesigned chat layout, gestures, navigation), and adds AI agent tooling for automation and developer integrations, along with multiple fixes for messaging reliability, media handling, and network resilience.

Contributed by: @JSKitty

• Source: https://github.com/VectorPrivacy/Vector/releases/tag/v0.4.0

§8. Nostur iOS - v1.28.0

Nostur is a lightweight Nostr client for iOS that lets users browse, post, and interact with decentralized social feeds over relays. In v1.28.0, it adds privacy and usability upgrades including private zaps, custom emojis, muted words filtering, improved relay controls (including the ability to block specific relays and view detailed relay stats), better DM handling with reactions and file improvements, and expanded feed features like Hot/Zapped/Funny/Gallery refresh controls on macOS. The update also improves media handling (video, audio stripping options, thumbnails), fixes multiple rendering and playback bugs, and enhances overall stability across feeds, replies, and relay connectivity.

Contributed by: Fabian

• Source: https://github.com/nostur-com/nostur-ios-public/releases/tag/1.28.0

§9. Nostr VPN - v4.0.48

Nostr VPN is a Tailscale-style private mesh VPN built around a FIPS-backed data plane. In v4.0.48, the release improves VPN reliability and persistence by restoring Android always-on and boot-start tunnels from saved configurations, refreshing network and DNS state before tunnel startup, and surfacing lockdown/connection status more clearly, while also enhancing the CLI and desktop updater to use a secure Nostr/hashtree/Blossom update pipeline with better Windows handling. It further fixes cross-platform routing issues such as stable peer identity preservation, MagicDNS and DNS forwarder selection, join-request state accuracy, and iOS packet-tunnel configuration handling, along with UI polish like improved launcher icon rendering across platforms. This was the latest, and there were also a few more updates last week (v4.0.40, v4.0.41, v4.0.42, v4.0.45, v4.0.47).

Contributed by: @Sirius

• Source: https://github.com/mmalmi/nostr-vpn/releases/tag/v4.0.48

§10. Nostrord - v1.2.0

Nostrord is a chat client built on the Nostr protocol for participating in decentralized group and private messaging. In v1.2.0, the release improves overall chat stability and cross-platform consistency with fixes for mobile and web keyboard behavior, scrolling, and media rendering, resolves NIP-46 authentication issues like banner flicker and reconnect problems, adds a multi-account chooser on sign-out, and introduces a full React/web rewrite to match native functionality, alongside general UI and performance polish across chat and navigation. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v1.1.0 last week.

Contributed by: @Anjhc

• Source: https://github.com/nostrord/nostrord/releases/tag/v1.2.0

§11. Pyramid - v1.2.10

Pyramid is a Nostr-based community tool that enables users to create and manage hierarchical, community-focused relay structures for organizing social interaction on the protocol. In v1.2.10, the update includes a fix ensuring users can still reject requests even when they have no remaining capacity or limits, improving control and moderation behavior in edge cases while maintaining stable community request handling within the system.

Contributed by: @fiatjaf

• Source: https://github.com/fiatjaf/pyramid/releases/tag/v1.2.10

§1. Nostr Java - v1.3.0

Nostr Java is a SDK for building applications on the Nostr protocol using Java. The v1.3.0 release refactors WebSocket handling for improved reliability, enhances NIP-44 key derivation and error handling, improves test robustness, and updates multiple development and publishing dependencies across the project. This was the biggest, and there were also the releases of v2.0.4, v2.0.5, v2.0.6, and v2.0.7 last week.

Contributed by: Eric T

• Source: https://github.com/tcheeric/nostr-java/releases/tag/v1.3.0

§2. Noscrypt - v0.1.14

Noscrypt is a cryptography library for building Nostr applications in C. This release is a non-breaking maintenance update that improves memory safety, testing, and dependency tracking, fixes a latent buffer-sizing bug, updates bundled cryptography libraries including libsecp256k1 and mbedTLS, removes unused vendor components to reduce repo size, and strengthens build reliability by treating compiler warnings as errors.

Contributed by: @ChipTuner

• Source: https://github.com/VnUgE/noscrypt/releases/tag/v0.1.14

§3. Mostro Core - v0.12.0

Mostro Core is a Rust-based library that provides the peer-to-peer foundation for the Mostro ecosystem. The v0.12.0 release introduces protocol types for 2-of-3 multisig escrow support, improves Cashu escrow-related functionality, fixes response validation for escrow events and per-proof signatures, and includes internal maintenance and changelog updates.

Contributed by: @negrunch

• Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro-core/releases/tag/v0.12.0

§4. Routstr Core - v0.4.4-beta (Pre-release)

Routstr Core is a FastAPI-based reverse proxy for AI services that sits in front of OpenAI-compatible APIs and enables pay-per-request billing using decentralized payment and routing logic. In the v0.4.4-beta pre-release, it improves request and token handling (preventing empty tokens, fixing swapping and upstream forwarding), enforces provider fee calculation rules, adds provider metadata in responses, and improves logging and version reporting. It also includes fixes for balance handling, invoice processing (RIP-08 lightning invoices), SELinux/podman compatibility, and security-related components such as TEE fixes and dependency cleanup, while refining overall stability of the billing and routing pipeline.

Contributed by: @redshift 9qeklajc

• Source: https://github.com/Routstr/routstr-core/releases/tag/v0.4.4-beta

§1. GRAIN - v0.7.0

GRAIN is a comprehensive Nostr infrastructure project that combines a configurable relay server for operators with a Go client library for developers building Nostr applications. The v0.7.0 release introduces a full web-based relay administration dashboard with live configuration editing, owner-authenticated management using NIP-86 and NIP-98, improved login and signer persistence flows, expanded theming and UI customization, enhanced DM privacy protections for gift-wrapped messages, improved blacklist and mute-list synchronization, support for multiple backup relays, and major operational, security, and usability improvements for relay operators and developers managing Nostr infrastructure.

Contributed by: @OceanSlim

• Source: https://github.com/0ceanSlim/grain/releases/tag/v0.7.0

§No Protocol Updates and Releases for last week.

Nostr is built by the plebs, for the plebs. If you found this Nostr 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 Seventy-eighth Nostr Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.

Thank you @Jurjen de Vries for this amazing idea!

A big shoutout to @rabble for his generous patronage for my Nostr Recaps!

Thank you, my younger brother @samalka for helping me with the content and graphic stuff for my Nostr Recaps!

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