Nostr Compass Podcast #3
The third episode of the Nostr Compass Podcast is here. This special episode celebrates Nostr's fifth anniversary with a deep retrospective tracing the protocol's evolution through every December since 2020.
We start with HODL invoice escrows in Shopstr, then journey through five years of December milestones: from fiatjaf's first client release in December 2020, through the Hacker News moment in 2021, Jack Dorsey's pivotal 14 BTC donation in 2022, the NIP-44 encryption audit in 2023, to 2024 and 2025's ecosystem expansion with NDK's 162x cache speedup and NIP-55 signer proliferation.
Plus: Amethyst's desktop module takes shape, voice messaging arrives, local relays and offline functionality, data resilience patterns, NIP updates, ZapStore improvements, npub.cash, and more.
Whether you've been here since the Branle days or just discovered Nostr, this episode puts five years of protocol development into perspective.
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Nostr Compass #3
Five years of Nostr Decembers: from fiatjaf's first client in 2020 to 2,500+ relays, 140+ clients, and a thriving global ecosystem.
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