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This is my OpenSats progress report number 3 covering the months March and April 2025 while I paused my grant during December '24, January '25 and February '25.

What are the Nostr things I've done in week 21?

I had such a busy time I haven't found any time to write down the Nostr things I worked on every week since week 16. So it's time to catch up and highlight the Nostr stuff I've worked on.

NIP-19 is finally there in the Nostr-PHP library.

I don't have much to share, because I'm basicly working on the NIP-19 integration in the Nostr-PHP library. You can read why it's taking quite some time to finish it up as I started to work on this back in October '24.

Back at it, trying to find some flow on the things that are waiting to be implemented.

I just integrated a new feature in the Community Curated Nostr Stuff (CCNS) website. Now when you post a link, it is broadcasted as a Nostr event kind 39700 to the Nostr network.

What started as an idea during Bitcoin 2024 Amsterdam, we accomplished it on February 1 & 2: be there with Nostr at FOSDEM! FOSDEM is one of the worlds biggest conferences for free and open-source minded people & communities held since 2000 in Brussels (Belgium).

2025 already started and I'm behind sharing weekly updates around the Nostr stuff.

As a OpenSats grantee every quarter I need to report what I've done regarding to my grant application. This is my second 90-day report (Augustus - October 2024) for the work I've done for the Nostr-PHP helper library.

While a new version of PHP is released (8.4) the latest version of 8.2 and 8.3 introduced a bug which leads to errors for signing en verifying events in the library.

Summary of Nostr stuff I worked on in these two weeks.

In the previous article, "Personal data are outlawed" it was described how everyone, in theory, has a personal graph. This graph can be built up from existing graphs such as the link, social, and interest graph.

In a previous article, "We're Giving Everything Away," it was described how each of us is a product within various social media services. We trade our digital identity for the free use of these services. We pay, as it were, with a piece of our privacy. In itself, this principle is not necessarily a problem. However, it often remains unclear what exactly happens with our data.

Personal information belongs to you, not to Facebook, Google, Hyves, or other social media platforms. Yet, we've been giving it away to them for years, without fully realizing the potential indirect consequences that may arise in the future. In my opinion, there are still many people who don't fully understand that they can use these social media platforms for free, but at a cost.

1 year later, why Nostr still resonates and NIP-19 struggles with encoding TLV

After 1 year deciding to do more with Nostr, my love for the protocol has grown significant. It's not only the protocol, but also being part of an ideology-driven movement is something that really hits a sensitive chord.

FOSDEM 2025, NIP-42 and NIP-19, transpher

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. With a group of volunteers we would like to attend the event with a stand / booth. In this article you can read our submission for a Nostr stand.

Week 42 updates