Show overview
Nostr Compass Podcast has published 25 episodes during 2026. That works out to roughly 25 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 36 min and 1h 28m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Technology show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 25 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Nostr Compass.
From the publisher
Weekly conversations with the developers building on Nostr. Companion podcast to the Nostr Compass newsletter covering NIP proposals, client updates, relay developments, and protocol changes.
Latest Episodes
View all 25 episodesNostr Compass Podcast #25
Nostr Compass Podcast #24
Nostr Compass Podcast #23
Nostr Compass Podcast #22
Nostr Compass Podcast #21
Nostr Compass Podcast #20
Nostr Compass Podcast #19
Nostr Compass Podcast #18
Nostr Compass #17
Nostr Compass #16
Amethyst ships NIP-62 Request to Vanish and relay management, NIP-5A merges for static websites on Nostr, and Marmot adoption widens.
Nostr Compass #15
Primal shipped Follow Packs and deep links, BigBrotr turned leaked nsecs into a network-wide warning system, nostr-vpn and P2P DOOM pushed Nostr beyond social use cases, and the episode closed with a six-year March retrospective.
Nostr Compass #14
Wallet clients broadened NWC support while removing risky paths, Notedeck pushed signed release discovery onto Nostr, relay selection became more runtime-aware, and the episode closed with deep dives into NIP-94 and NIP-54.
Nostr Compass #13
Shopstr commerce MCP, NIP-42 relay auth, Route96 labeling, Samizdat's Android alpha, and NIP-49 plus NIP-70 trace this week's Nostr hardening push.
Nostr Compass #12
Podcast #12 is out. We unpack outbox benchmarks, ContextVM's MCP, and MDK's public release. We also run through this week's releases and NIP updates. Then we trace five Februaries of Nostr from the 2021 rewrite to 2026 infrastructure growth. Read the issue at nostrcompass.org.
Nostr Compass #11
FIPS mesh networking, White Noise real-time messaging, HAVEN multi-npub relay, Burrow agent messaging, and NIP-55 Android signing deep dive.
Nostr Compass #10
Blossom local caching, competing AI agent NIPs, FROST signing, decentralized maps, Mostro Lightning wallet, and NIP-85 Trusted Assertions deep dive.
Nostr Compass #9
Mostro ships its first public beta for P2P Bitcoin trading on mobile, Zapstore reaches 1.0 stable, and OpenSats renews funding for Minibits Wallet. NIP-45 gains HyperLogLog for approximate cross-relay event counting. Primal Android expands NWC infrastructure while Antiprimal bridges Primal's cache to standard Nostr protocols. A campaign to slim kind 0 metadata begins with identity tags moving to their own event kind. NIP-96 continues its deprecation as projects migrate to Blossom for content-addressed media hosting.
Nostr Compass #8
rust-nostr ships a sweeping SDK overhaul. New clients like Nostria, Frostr, and Vector raise the bar. NIP deep dives follow.
Nostr Compass #7
Ridestr builds P2P ridesharing with Cashu escrow. Damus ships negentropy DM sync. Marmot merges MIP-03. Five years of Nostr Januaries reviewed.
Nostr Compass #6
Bitchat hardens with Rust, AI resurrects abandoned projects, relay trust gets standardized, quantum resistance debates continue, plus Amber, Zeus, Primal, and NostrDB updates.