# Nostr Compass #3 - 2025. december 31.

**Dátum:** 2025-12-31  
**Forrás:** https://nostrcompass.org/en/newsletters/2025-12-31-newsletter/  
**Special:** December Recap - Five Years of Nostr Decembers

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## 🎄 Special: 5 év Nostr Decemberei

### December 2020: Genesis

- fiatjaf initiated protocol: November 7, 2020
- **Branle** - first client release (Quasar/Vue.js, absurd-sql)
- Core architecture: secp256k1 public keys, cryptographically signed posts
- 1-2 experimental relays
- Telegram group: @nostr_protocol (Nov 16 launch)
- Documentation: "simplest open protocol for censorship-resistant global social network"

### December 2021: Early Development

- **Hacker News front page** (Dec 31): 110 points, 138 comments
- ~7 relays, <1,000 users
- Branle updates: private key import, multi-relay support
- noscl: command-line client
- NIPs repository: May 2022 (not yet created)

### December 2022: The Tipping Point

**Jack Dorsey donation (Dec 15):**
- **14.17171699 BTC** (~$245k-$250k)
- "100% what we wanted from Bluesky"
- Split with William Casarin (jb55) on Dec 16
- Dorsey verified Nostr account

**Twitter chaos accelerating adoption:**
- Dec 14-15: Journalist suspensions (NYT, CNN, WaPo)
- Dec 18: Twitter bans Nostr/Mastodon promotion (reversed next day)

**Protocol development surge:**
- **NIP-19 merged** (Dec 16): bech32-encoded identifiers (npub, nsec, note, nprofile, nevent)
- NIPs repo: 36+ commits
- Damus TestFlight filled within hours
- Astral: Branle fork for profile creation
- Snort: "fast, censorship-resistant" web client
- Amethyst development started (Vitor Pamplona)
- Alby v1.22.1: NIP-19 support (Dec 22)

**Growth:**
- Dec 7: ~800 users with profiles
- Jan 31, 2023: Damus App Store launch
- June 2023: 315,000+ users

### December 2023: Ecosystem Maturation

**Security inflection point (Dec 20):**
- **NIP-44 revision 3 merged**
- Cure53 security audit (NOS-01): 10 issues identified
- TypeScript, Go, Rust implementations
- Timing attacks, forward secrecy concerns

### December 2025

- NIP-55 signer proliferation
- NDK 162x cache speedup
- Amethyst desktop via Quartz
- Notedeck messaging
- Citrine web apps
- NIP-54 internationalization fixes

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## 🗞️ News

### Amethyst Desktop Module
- **Quartz** segítségével
- Desktop app fejlesztés

### Notedeck
- Messaging capability added

### Citrine
- Web app hosting

### NIP-54
- Internationalization fixes
- Non-Latin scripts támogatása

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## Hálózat növekedés

| Időpont | Relays | Users |
|---------|--------|-------|
| Dec 2020 | 1-2 | Handful |
| Dec 2021 | ~7 | <1,000 |
| Dec 2022 | Growing | ~800 (profiles) |
| Dec 2023 | Expanding | 315,000+ |
| Dec 2025 | 2,500+ nodes | 50+ countries |

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**Mentve:** 2026-02-20  
*Quetzalcoatl*