Week of 2026-10-09
A paid copy now has a hostname
A read of public pages from 3 October through 9 October 2026. Written for people and for agents. OpenSats funded Bitcoin Core work. The Nostr fund did not announce a new wave. A paid nsitepin hostname is serving.
- Page
- Weekly brief from nsitepin. A human and Grok curate it.
- Updated
- 2026-10-09
- Covers
- Releases and grants in Nostr and Bitcoin.
- Service
- Directory of sites, and a Lightning pin when a host drops the files.
- Agents
- JSON of the directory and this brief.
Shipped
GIFHUNT on nsitepin — A Lightning payment copied this Nostr GIF browser onto our host. The files answer at gifhunt.nsitepin.com.
Private Provider 0.7.2 — Announced 3 October. The coding agent writes a request. The app builds the git command, the person approves it, and Amber signs. The agent does not hold the key. The app is on ngit 3.0.3 and is listed on Zapstore.
Sidecar 1.15.9 — Updated 7 October. This browser signer finds the Blossom servers a person already listed and uses them for uploads in both composers.
Funded
Bitcoin Core grants — On 7 October OpenSats awarded four first-time grants and one renewal from the General Fund. The work is Bitcoin Core’s release builds, its validation library, and its wallet.
No newer Nostr wave — The Nostr fund’s last announced wave is still 20 May. This week the new money went to Bitcoin Core.
Direction
The grants stayed with Bitcoin Core — The week’s money pays for reproducible builds, a shared validation library, and wallet review. It does not fund a new Nostr app.
Feed clients kept shipping — Ditto 2.44, a notes and media client, added 3D rooms and a torrent page on 6 and 7 October. Another timeline is a crowded category.
The mirror note is still unwritten — The 22 September pull request, which would let someone announce a copied file, is still open. No new comment arrived this week. A paid hostname can serve the copy.
Worth a look
Bitcoin Core grants — Five people got time for the release process, the validation library, and the wallet.
GIFHUNT on nsitepin — Open the paid copy. The hostname is the proof that a Lightning pin can serve the files.
Private Provider 0.7.2 — The agent proposes a git action. A person approves it before anything is signed.
Use the directory
The list is free. Open a site, read the color, and pin a copy here if you want the files kept when the original host is gone.
Earlier
Week of 2026-10-02
A dead file host is still an open problem
A read of public pages and public notes from 1 September through 2 October 2026. Written for people and for agents. OpenSats has not announced a Nostr grant wave newer than 20 May. The newest spotlight is git.
Shipped
ngit and GRASP — Git that does not sit on one company. Version 3 adds private repositories. An agent key can open a pull request. The maintainer’s key still merges. OpenSats spotlighted the work on 28 September.
Private Provider — An Android app from the last days of September. It packs a coding agent, paid model calls through Routstr, git on Nostr, and Cashu, and it publishes the APK onto Blossom. Someone asked the same week who runs a Blossom server that allows APKs.
nsitepin directory — A free list of Nostr sites, and a color for whether their files are still on a host. Open one to pin a copy here.
Funded
No newer Nostr wave — The OpenSats Nostr page’s newest post is the 28 September git spotlight. The last announced grant wave is still 20 May.
44Billion — A launcher. One place that opens Nostr apps. From that May wave.
NosCall — Encrypted voice and video between Nostr keys. From that May wave.
Routstr — Paid model calls. An OpenAI-style request, settled with Lightning, without an account at the model company. From that May wave. The core repo was updated 30 September.
Wisp — Android onboarding. A way onto Nostr, not another timeline. From that May wave.
Zapstore — An Android store for Nostr and Bitcoin apps. OpenSats funded it again in that May wave.
Direction
The file host can die — On 22 September a spec change proposed that if you care about a file, you mirror it and announce the mirror. The Blossom author replied that no spec covers this, and that easy mirroring, and a way to see which files are still on a server, have not been built. The pull request is still open.
Agents can post and still not be found — Two agents said so in public on 2 October. One called discovery the whole wall. One can publish here after another network suspended the account, and said nobody is reading the notes. A proposed stack of agent-message event kinds has sat open since March. Finding a paid model, and finding a tool by pubkey, already exist.
No visit rank — Nobody publishes how many people open these sites. A fresh manifest means the author shipped again. It does not mean the site is popular. A red color is a file host that stopped answering, which is a different failure from a relay that got flooded.
Worth a look
Blossom fallback — The open pull request. It is the spec catching up to the sentence this directory already colors in red.
GRASP — The funded, shipping way to keep a repository when one company is down, blocked, or deletes the work.
nsite-clay 0.3 — One HTML file that edits and republishes itself. The writing can be paid with a 2,000 sat invoice or a Routstr node. The tool refuses a file that looks like a private key. Shipped 25 September.