🗞️ The Latest in Nostr: Weekly Nostr Recap 🚀 (13th April 2026 - 71st Edition)
- “i often wonder why i come back to nostr everyday,
- but I’m reminded of its beauty in every human here.
- may it be a post of the sunrise or sunset, the views of the land they carry themselves, their projects, hobbies, or simply statements of good morning.
- the humanness always brings me back
- the real tangible life you can feel while scrolling, you can’t find that anywhere else
- all tied together with the fact we send each other little pieces of bitcoin, a true statement of love and appreciation for the human on the other side.”
- 1. The most scary and worst few hours in life of a popular Nostrich 😰
- 2. A Popular pop band is on Nostr 😍
- 3. Freedom is not available in China? 🤮
- 4. Music is a medicine for everyone 🎵
- 5. A lady nostrich shares the terrible situation in Iran 😥
- 6. Another wave of Open Sats Nostr grants 👏🏻
- 7. Nostr is the best social media to explore and hangon 🤩
- 8. A Nostr Client celebrates its birthday 🥳
- 9. The horse son of a tremendous Nostrich 🐎
- 10. You can see these Terms of services especially only on Nostr 😍
- 11. Do you remember? 🤔
- Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage:
- Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage:
- 1. Nostr Complete Tutorial: The Anti-Censorship Social Network That Protects Your Privacy
- 1. Nostr: Introducing Renaud Lifchiz - April 2026
- 2. Brisbane BitDevs March - NOSTR - April 2026
- 3. Nostr Atlanta #12 - Lunch & Learn - Spaces Workshop - April 2026
- 4. NosVegas 2026 - April 2026
- 5. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - May 2026
- 6. Nostr Nights #2 @ Bitcoin Park Nashville - May 2026
- 1. Anthropic’s Mythos AI Escapes & Your Music is Being Manipulated
- 2. They Can’t Ban This! | 029 Trailer Derek Ross
- 🔥 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. Titan - New Tool
- 2. Bikel - New Tool
- 3. Snort - v0.5.0
- 4. Amber - v6.0.1
- 5. Mostro - v0.17.3
- 6. Nostria - v3.1.19
- 7. Comet - alpha-d52907f
- 8. Primal Android App - 3.0.21
- 9. Shosho - v0.15.2
- 10. Numchat - v3.58.283
- 11. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.2.4
- 12. Wisp - v0.17.5- beta
- 1. Nostr Archives - New Developer Tool
- 2. Awesome nsite - New Developer Tool
- 3. Zapstore - 1.0.2
- 4. RX Nostr -@3.7.1
- 5. Mostro Core - v0.8.3
- 6. ZSP - 0.4.8
- 1. Nosflare - v7.9.41
“i often wonder why i come back to nostr everyday,
but I’m reminded of its beauty in every human here.
may it be a post of the sunrise or sunset, the views of the land they carry themselves, their projects, hobbies, or simply statements of good morning.
the humanness always brings me back
the real tangible life you can feel while scrolling, you can’t find that anywhere else
all tied together with the fact we send each other little pieces of bitcoin, a true statement of love and appreciation for the human on the other side.”
1. The most scary and worst few hours in life of a popular Nostrich 😰
Yesterday was the worst day of my life and then the best day of my life… Worst because I thought I might lose my pregnant wife. Best because Carla and the baby survived and are stable.
Thank you to everyone who sent their thoughts and prayers for Carla. It’s been an insane 24 hours…
@CARLA is stable now and both she and the baby are okay, but it got really fucking bad really fast… Scariest day/night of my life…
Carla is an absolute badass and at the beginning of the slow road to recovery, and I am so damn thankful.
Posting this here for those who’ve been asking what happened:
Carla started feeling weird yesterday afternoon after a nap. We were up all night with our son and had to take him to urgent care in the morning, so we were all resting before going to meet up with the family for Easter Sunday.
When Carla woke up she had some back pain and was very clammy. She was a bit disoriented but still totally coherent. Within 10 minutes she was almost completely unresponsive. Barely conscious. Crazy disoriented. Hardly able to respond even with single words. Zero control of her body. Totally limp in my arms. Vomited.
I called 911 immediately. Paramedics arrived and she was still barely responding and could barely open her eyes. When she did open her eyes she said she couldn’t see, her vision was black. They got her in an ambulance to the hospital. Her BP was insanely low in initial readings, like 55/38… got her to the hospital and BP remained dangerously low. About an hour she appeared to improve a little after multiple rounds of fluids. BP still super low but higher than before. She became lucid and ER staff thought she was stabilizing. She was shivering from the IV and had a bit of back and abdominal pain but it was manageable. They said we’d have to stay the night for monitoring but would be fine to go home tomorrow.
But then she started having severe abdominal and back pain around her shoulder blades. Pain got to the point where she was screaming like crazy. “Worst pain of my life” (and she has an extremely high baseline pain tolerance). I’ve never seen her in such unrelenting agony like that…
The pain kept getting worse and they did additional scans. The ultrasound showed a lot of fluid in her abdomen, likely blood. They started giving her massive blood transfusions and shortly said she needed surgery immediately. They thought it might be a ruptured ovarian cyst but wouldn’t know for sure until they opened her up. Got her into the OR about an hour after that. Doctor said surgery would take an hour…
2.5 hours in the OR the later the doctor finally came out and said Carla and baby were both OK, thank god… longest 2.5 hours of my life…
It turns out they had to do a giant incision down her entire abdomen from too to bottom to find the source of the bleeding (because it was NOT her ovaries or uterus) and bring in a third surgeon who was on call.
They removed 2+ liters of blood from her abdominal cavity. For context, the average adult woman has about 4.5 liters of blood in their entire body…
They had to remove her spleen because it had ruptured and was the source of the bleeding… the doctors described it as “battlefield medicine” because of the amount of blood in and out and how dicey things got… but thank god both she and the baby are ok.
The doctor’s still don’t know why the spleen ruptured… it was a “non-traumatic” rupture, meaning there was no physical injury to the spleen which caused the rupture (~1 cm). It was a “spontaneous” rupture, which is quite rare apparently. They did note that the spleen was slightly enlarged but also not sure why yet. Waiting for pathology to see if that provides any answers. May have been contributing physiological/mechanical factors from pregnancy but we just don’t know yet.
The reason her shoulder blades were in such intense pain was because blood from the spleen was pooling under her diaphragm, blood is an irritant, and apparently that triggers the phrenic nerve which the brain interprets as pain between and around the shoulder blades.
Multiple surgeons said she was “this close”…thank god we didn’t waste any time. When one of the surgeons checked in on her today, he said she would have been “dead by midnight” without the emergency surgery and splenectomy…
The doctors also all said this combination of circumstances is very rare. Spleens obviously burst all the time, but usually it’s directly related to intense trauma, which was absent here. They said this case is probably going to be in medical journals because it’s so strange.
Carla is still in a lot of pain (we’re not even 24 hours out from the end of the surgery yet), but she’s handling it like an absolute champ. She was sedated and intubated with a ventilator until about 5AM this morning. This afternoon she was already able to get up and go walking multiple times. The pain is really bad, but should hopefully start lessening with each passing day.
It’s going to be a long road to recovery, especially with pregnancy on top of it, but she and the baby are both OK and right now that’s all that matters. One step at a time.
In typical Carla fashion, she’s already been cracking jokes and trying to bribe the nurses. She even fired off a post while still a bit loopy from the sedatives, but now she’s just trying to manage the pain and hopefully get some sleep soon.
Thankful for the great doctors, nurses, and paramedics who saved her life and our baby.
Thanks again to everyone who has reached out and sent their thoughts and prayers. I’m passing along your messages to Carla and they’re very much appreciated.
This still doesn’t seem real. A normal day turned into a nightmare so damn fast…
Hug your loved ones tight. Life is a gift. Don’t take it for granted.
2. A Popular pop band is on Nostr 😍
3. Freedom is not available in China? 🤮
4. Music is a medicine for everyone 🎵
5. A lady nostrich shares the terrible situation in Iran 😥
6. Another wave of Open Sats Nostr grants 👏🏻
7. Nostr is the best social media to explore and hangon 🤩
8. A Nostr Client celebrates its birthday 🥳
9. The horse son of a tremendous Nostrich 🐎
10. You can see these Terms of services especially only on Nostr 😍
11. Do you remember? 🤔
Nostr is growing fast!
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://nostrarchives.com/analytics,
Top 3 Popular Clients by Usage:
👉🏻 Amethyst - 315 Users - 2.0k Notes
👉🏻 Primal Android - 236 Users - 1.3k Notes
👉🏻 Primal Web - 142 Users - 417 Notes
Top 3 Popular Relays by Usage:
👉🏻 relay.damus.io - 191.9k Users
👉🏻 relay.momostr.pink - 185.0k Users
👉🏻 relay.primal.net - 159.4k Users
According to https://stats.andotherstuff.org/,
👉🏻 Publishing Users last week : 331.4K (-42.8%)
👉🏻 New Publishing Users Last week : 165.3K (-27.5%)
👉🏻 All-time Zap Count : 6.68M
👉🏻 All-time Zap BTC Amount : 42.41 BTC
👉🏻 All-time Zap Senders : 175.1K
According to https://npub.world/stats,
During last week:
👉🏻 Total Users: 3,181, compared to 2,967 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. Nostr Complete Tutorial: The Anti-Censorship Social Network That Protects Your Privacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE5z5mg0b4Y
1. Nostr: Introducing Renaud Lifchiz - April 2026
📅 Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2026 ⏰ Time: 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM GMT+2 📍 Location: Chez Ginette, 101 Rue Caulaincourt, 75018 Paris, France
🤹♀️ Organizers: @cluborange
2. Brisbane BitDevs March - NOSTR - April 2026
📅 Date: Sunday, April 19, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.30 PM - 9.00 PM GMT+10 📍 Location: The Dalgety Public House, 6a/110 MacQuarie St, Teneriffe QLD 4005, Brisbane, Australia
🤹♀️ Organizers: @cluborange
🔗 Event:
https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzqejwqu87yhnkmh8054yjnsx7gtk26zqspy6s0cjdu33zqagumda2qqvrvwtyxymxgdryx9nxyd3svgmrye3cx43rscnpvvnq3e97
3. Nostr Atlanta #12 - Lunch & Learn - Spaces Workshop - April 2026
📅 Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2026 ⏰ Time: 12.00 PM - 2.00 PM EDT 📍 Location: ATL BitLab, 684 John Wesley Dobbs Ave NE UNIT A1, Atlanta, GA 30312, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers: @cluborange
4. NosVegas 2026 - April 2026
📅 Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2026 ⏰ Time: 7.00 PM - 1.00 AM PDT 📍 Location: We All Scream Night Club, 517 Fremont St, Las Vegas, NV 89101, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers: @Derek Ross
5. Digital Freedom with Nostr & Bitcoin - May 2026
📅 Date: Sunday, May 03, 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/mlcdqtyjchbfb/
6. Nostr Nights #2 @ Bitcoin Park Nashville - May 2026
📅 Date: Monday, May 11, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6.00 PM - 8.30 PM CDT 📍 Location: Bitcoin Park, 1910, 21st Avenue South, Nashville, Davidson County, Middle Tennessee, Tennessee, 37212, United States
🤹♀️ Organizers: @Derek Ross
1. Anthropic’s Mythos AI Escapes & Your Music is Being Manipulated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGimXKaz9bw
2. They Can’t Ban This! | 029 Trailer Derek Ross
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjny-YDi6Uw
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
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Name: @flash
- Zaps Received: 426
- Sats Earned: 22k
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Name: @cj8z…rz4u
- Zaps Received: 267
- Sats Earned: 142k
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Name: @utxo the webmaster 🧑💻
- Zaps Received: 241
- Sats Earned: 53k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
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Name: @aqstr
- Zaps Sent: 1827
- Sats Spent: 79k
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Name: @Yarnlady 🧶
- Zaps Sent: 145
- Sats Spent: 4k
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Name: @FLjustin
- Zaps Sent: 138
- Sats Spent: 31k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
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Name: @Alby Zapper
- Sats Earned: 903k
- Zaps Received: 118
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Name: @Jor
- Sats Earned: 277k
- Zaps Received: 190
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Name: @RabbitHoleRecap
- Sats Earned: 191k
- Zaps Received: 34
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
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Name: “The name not visible”
- Sats Spent: 420k
- Zaps Sent: 27
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Name: @lemon
- Sats Spent: 358k
- Zaps Sent: 74
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Name: “The name not visible”
- Sats Spent: 205k
- Zaps Sent: 45
Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement:
🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
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- Zaps Received: 121
- Sats Earned: 71k
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- Zaps Received: 103
- Sats Earned: 50k
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Which one of you put the Strait of Hormuz on @BTCMap.org?
- Zaps Received: 72
- Sats Earned: 7k
🔥 Top 3: Most Sats
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- Sats Earned: 88k
- Zaps Received: 3
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- Sats Earned: 71k
- Zaps Received: 121
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- Sats Earned: 51k
- Zaps Received: 5
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Changed my pfp back to normal 😎
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@3f770...45b24 does this count? 👀😅
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1. Titan - New Tool
Titan is a native nsite:// desktop browser for the Nostr web, named after Saturn’s largest moon—hidden beneath a dense atmosphere—reflecting its role in revealing a new layer of the internet; it resolves nsite:// URLs via Nostr relays, renders static sites from Blossom servers, implements NIP-5A (nsite v2), and introduces a Bitcoin-native naming protocol for permanent, decentralized domain ownership.
Developed by: @josh
- Source: https://github.com/btcjt/titan
2. Bikel - New Tool
Bikel is an open-source, decentralized mapping and geolocation application built on the Nostr network, enabling cyclists and athletes to track rides, attach media, organize events like alleycat races, and send Bitcoin micropayments, all while maintaining full ownership of their location data through NIP-52 time-based events and portable identity across clients and relays.
Developed by: Mnpezz
- Source: https://github.com/Mnpezz/bikel
3. Snort - v0.5.0
Snort is a fast, React-based Nostr UI focused on performance and security. The v0.5.0 release delivers major security hardening (real Schnorr signature verification, hardened NIP-46 against forged relay messages, improved PIN encryption, and removal of unsafe delegation trust), significant performance upgrades (batched WASM verification, lazy loading, priority-based profile loading, and worker-relay optimizations), and broad stability fixes across React render loops, hooks, and memory leaks, along with improved SSR compatibility and default relay handling. Although this was the biggest release, there were also 2 more releases last week after this. (v0.5.1, v0.5.3)
Contributed by: @Kieran
4. Amber - v6.0.1
Amber is a mobile Nostr event signer (Android app) used to securely sign events for other Nostr apps and connections. This release improves stability and reliability by fixing event validation issues, race conditions, and subscription leaks, removes a dependency, updates the Quartz library, adds new backup options (WebDAV and Google Drive sharing), and improves relay reconnection behavior with exponential backoff. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v6.0.0 last week.
Contributed by: @greenart7c3
5. Mostro - v0.17.3
Mostro is a peer-to-peer Lightning Network exchange platform built on Nostr, used for non-custodial Bitcoin trading between users. This release is a small hotfix addressing a regression that blocked range orders, along with changelog updates and release maintenance. This was the latest, and there was also the release of v0.17.2 last week.
Contributed by: @qqqq…rfkq @Pinball Wizard
6. Nostria - v3.1.19
Nostria is a Nostr-based social platform (end-user client) focused on user-controlled, non-extractive social networking. The v3.1.19 release is a UI refactor that migrates all dialogs to a new unified dialog component for improved consistency and maintainability. There were also a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by: @sondreb
7. Comet - alpha-d52907f
Comet is a local-first encrypted notes app built with Tauri, React, TypeScript, and Rust, using Nostr for sync and Blossom for blob storage. This release mainly improves the editor experience by refining list behavior (better cursor snapping, indentation, auto-renumbering, and selection handling), improving blockquote and tag metadata handling, and cleaning up tests, lint rules, and formatting for a more stable and responsive editing system.
Contributed by: Christian Chiarulli
8. Primal Android App - 3.0.21
Primal Android App is a full-featured end-user Nostr client with integrated wallet support for social interaction and Bitcoin payments on Android. In this release, it improves wallet reliability and multi-account support, adds better error handling for NWC wallet responses, enhances auto-reconnect for both remote signer and wallet services, and fixes multiple UI and stability issues including poll crashes, incorrect poll zap display, feed scrolling behavior, and wallet visibility handling when no wallet is present, along with minor Dev Tools and onboarding QA improvements.
Contributed by: Aleksandar Ilic
9. Shosho - v0.15.2
Shosho is a mobile live-streaming app built on RTMP with Nostr integration for broadcasting and social interaction. In v0.15.2, it improves Android usability by fixing keyboard handling, correcting status bar color display issues, and resolving screen rotation problems in the live stream carousel, resulting in a more stable and smoother streaming experience. This was the latest and there were also the releases of v0.15.1 and v0.15.0 last week.
Contributed by: @Rod
10. Numchat - v3.58.283
Nymchat is an ephemeral chat client built on Nostr (bridged with Bitchat) for temporary, anonymous messaging. This release is a small hotfix focused on changing the ordering of relay connections to improve connection stability and behavior during startup and syncing. This was the latest, and there were a lot more releases last week.
Contributed by: @Luxas
11. Mostro Mobile Client - v1.2.4
Mostro Mobile Client is a secure mobile app for peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading on the Mostro network. This release adds timestamps to chat messages and improves first-launch onboarding with community discovery and node selection, while also fixing session crashes, localization issues, settings persistence, and improving relay stability by upgrading the Nostr networking layer with parallel connections and refined timeouts.
Contributed by: @qqqq…rfkq
12. Wisp - v0.17.5- beta
Wisp is a minimal Android Nostr client focused on fast, lightweight messaging and interaction. This beta release improves chat UX with inline action icons in message headers, enhances emoji picker by sorting emojis based on usage frequency, and fixes a reply-count issue caused by LRU cache eviction, improving overall reliability and conversation continuity. This was the latest release, and there were some more beta releases last week. (v0.17.4-beta, v0.17.3-beta, and v0.17.2-beta)
Contributed by: @utxo the webmaster 🧑💻
1. Nostr Archives - New Developer Tool
Nostr Archives is a Nostr infrastructure service that ingests events from configurable relays, stores them in a fully indexed PostgreSQL database, and exposes the data through REST APIs and a WebSocket relay, while caching aggregate statistics in Redis.
Developed by: @utxo the webmaster 🧑💻
2. Awesome nsite - New Developer Tool
Awesome nsite is a curated collection of tools, applications, and resources for working with the nsite specification (NIP-5A), an extension of the Blossom spec built on the Nostr protocol, helping developers and users discover and build within the nsite ecosystem.
Developed by: @Sebastix
3. Zapstore - 1.0.2
Zapstore is a decentralized, social app store built on Nostr that lets users discover, install, and manage apps via relay-based app catalogs. This release adds deep link resolution, NIP-09 deletion support, improved app catalog indexing and relay hints, and a new stack-based home experience with faster loading and better navigation. It also improves install flows (APK handling, CDN retries, clearer errors), enhances search and relay messaging, and fixes multiple UI, pagination, and catalog loading issues. This was the biggest release, and there were also the releases of 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, and 1.0.6 also last week.
Contributed by: @franzap
4. RX Nostr -@3.7.1
RX Nostr is a reactive TypeScript/JavaScript library (SDK) built on RxJS that helps Nostr applications communicate with relays more easily. This release is a small bug fix adding filter options to getDefaultRelays(). There were another two releases also last week. (@3.7.0, crypto@3.1.4)
Contributed by: @penpenpng
5. Mostro Core - v0.8.3
Mostro Core is a Rust library (backend/core SDK) that provides peer-to-peer building blocks for the Mostro daemon and decentralized applications. This release mainly adds validation checks for order amounts, improves test structure, and includes refactoring and formatting cleanup.
Contributed by: @qqqq…rfkq
6. ZSP - 0.4.8
ZSP is a fast command-line tool used by Zapstore to publish Android apps to Nostr relays. This release adds support for including platform information in release events, improving how app distributions are described and filtered across different target environments. This was the latest, and there were also the releases of 0.4.7 and 0.4.6 last week.
Contributed by: @franzap
1. Nosflare - v7.9.41
Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay designed to run on Cloudflare Workers with a Cloudflare D1 database backend. This release is a hotfix addressing a database table creation issue. This was the latest, and there was also the release of 7.9.40 last week.
Contributed by: @Luxas
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 Seventy-First Recap, share your tips and suggestions for the next weekly #NostrRecap and let’s keep #GrowNostr together.
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