Nostr-PHP

1) How did you spend your time?

I continued to write and publish more detailed weekly updates here: https://nostrver.se/blog. These updates are also cross-posted via Nostr as long-form content.

Integrated RelayResponse classes

Pull requests:

• https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/pull/59 
• https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/pull/60

Documentation: https://nostr-php.dev/guides/relay-responses

Researched and build a proof of concept of a handling async requests and concurrency

I have published the research outcomes here: https://nostr-php.dev/references/async-concurrent-requests.   I also created a page here https://nostr-php.dev/guides/asynchronous-and-concurrent-requests with more details and a code snippet. The famous Http/Guzzle client is used for handling the requests in combination with a relative new piece of middleware which enables WebSockets. See https://github.com/valtzu/guzzle-websocket-middleware/issues/1 where I reached out for solving an issue with the middleware.

NIP-42 client to relay authentication

Finished, see https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/pull/67 

NIP-19 bech32-encoded entities

Work in progress, see https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/pull/68 

2.0.0 pre-release

See https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/releases/tag/2.0.0-alpha1 

Other stuff

• New / updates documentation at nostr-php.dev:
  • Generate keys
  • Publish an event
  • Verify event
  • Examples
  • Introduction
  • Request events
• Nostr-PHP has also a repo at gitworkshop.dev 
• My Telegram bot called Botstix can return my latest note from my personal relay (using PHP Symfony fo this), see here. 
• Fixed the issue that Nostr-PHP was installed as a dev dependency (which it is not) https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/issues/61
• Added Matomo for analytics on https://nostr-php.dev which can be viewed by anyone at https://matomo.sebastix.nl/
• Applied for a Nostr stand at FOSDEM 2025 in collaboration with Jurjen and Tanja, see https://nostrver.se/blog/nostr-stand-submission-fosdem-2025 (fast forward: it got accepted!)
• Tinkered around with a Nostr relay implementation written in PHP: https://github.com/nostriphant/transpher

2) What do you plan to work on next quarter?

• Finish the NIP-19 implementation which will support every bech32 entity
  • note
  • npub
  • nsec
  • nevent
  • naddr
  • nprofile
• Research how the revolt/event-loop package can be used to serve as a sort of a message bus for handling async and concurrent requests in the library
• Build a final 2.0.x release
  • By default and full async concurrent requests support
• Implement NIP-03
• Implement NIP-45
• Implement a firehose demo for requesting Nostr events
• Host the nostr-php.dev website as a static website with Blossom on Nostr. See https://github.com/lez/nsite and https://github.com/hzrd149/nsite-ts

3) How did you make use of the money?

• Livings costs
• I attended the Nostriga unconference. A personal recap on this expierence can be read here.
• I placed a Nostr advertisment on a billboard near the highway here. See this repo with all the assets: https://gitlab.com/sebastix-group/nostr/nostr-ads 
• I attended Nostrdam and Bitcoin Amsterdam 2024 for organizing and volunteering at the Nostr booth. Here is a post with all my learnings from those days: https://nostrver.se/note/my-learned-nostr-lessons-nostr-booth-bitcoin-amsterdam-2024

4) Is there anything we could help with?

I would love to see a (closed/private) digital place with other Nostr OpenSats grantees where we can share our experiences and challenges. We could give feedback to each other as a form of encouragement. For example I'm curious how other grantees are explaining the work they to other which are not familiar with FOSS, Nostr and/or Bitcoin.

• NIP-42 integration in Nostr-PHP: https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/pull/67
• Worked out a submission for a Nostr stand at FOSDEM 2025 https://nostrudel.ninja/#/n/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqpnrnguxe8qszsshvgkvhn6qjzxy7xsvx03rlrtddr62haj4lrm3qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjt3s0p3ksct59e3k7mf0qy88wumn8ghj77tpvf6jumt99uqzqrswsdmxjtx9er5mdmt388e7payg85yzvnhf6wspvjdxu7q8gmzsraa37w
• NIP-19 integration in Nostr-PHP work in progress: https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/pull/68
• Also tinkering around with this relay implemenation written in PHP: https://github.com/nostriphant/transpher

• On this page I added the Nostr components from https://git.fiatjaf.com/nostr-web-components in Vue / Nuxt: https://nuxstr.nostrver.se/fiatjaf-web-components/
• I continued to work on a proof-of-concept and debugged websocket connections with PHP Http/Guzzle client.
  • Async requests works
  • Sync requests works

Here is code snippet: https://gist.github.com/Sebastix/5991b84334c6c7e12bc28b2e703311b6 

• In this proof-of-concept I continued adding a promise and a pool for doing concurrency.
  • https://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/stable/quickstart.html#concurrent-requests
  • https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgpgl2js2xeslnysz4008cw4tw6gta43q4jamm4wqwp8ckzptrpzcprfmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hsygqxvwdrsmyuzq2zza3zej70gzggcnc6pse7y0udd450f2lk2hu0wypsgqqqqqqs72n4rr
• I reported an issue with the Guzzle Websocket Middleware package (https://github.com/valtzu/guzzle-websocket-middleware/issues/1) which was solved within a day by the maintainer.