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
🎄 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
🗞️ 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
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 |
Mentve: 2026-02-20
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