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📰 **In this week's issue:**

📖 **What Happened This Week In The Nostr World**

You think Nostr is just another decentralized Twitter clone that’s losing steam. Jack Dorsey’s Block just launched Buzz—a full-blown Slack and GitHub ...

👤 NM team



👉 https://nostrmag.com/article/w30nostr02

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Fiat Autopsy · 1d
Decentralization gains momentum as fiat's grip loosens, echoing the 1971 Nixon shock.
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📰 **In this week's issue:**

🗞️ **BREAKING**

The Bulgarian Resort That's Redefining Luxury (And It's Not Where You Think)

Think Bulgaria's Black Sea coast is all about budget-friendly package holidays and crowded beaches? You couldn't be more wrong. While the rest of the industry struggles with a 30% drop in bookings, one adults-only sanctuary has just been crowned the most luxurious hotel on the entire coastline for the second year in a row, boasting a near-perfect 9.8/10 guest rating. It only has 11 suites, it's located in a resort most travelers have never heard of, and it's completely redefining what "exclusive" means in Eastern Europe. What's the secret that's making it a global outlier in a season of crisis?



✍️ Author: NM team

🔗 https://nostrmag.com/article/w30travel01

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📰 **In this week's issue:**

🗞️ **BREAKING**

What Happened This Week In The Bitcoin World

You probably think Bitcoin's quiet summer lull means nothing's happening—but you'd be wrong. US spot Bitcoin ETFs just logged their longest winning streak since May, pulling in over $981 million across seven consecutive sessions through July 22. Yet even as institutional money floods back, a political knife fight in Washington over the CLARITY Act sent BTC from $67,000 to $65,000 in 48 hours. And that's just where the story starts—because what happened next might tell you more about where Bitcoin's actually headed than any price chart ever could.



✍️ Author: NM team

🔗 https://nostrmag.com/article/w30bitcoin04

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📰 **In this week's issue:**

📖 **Buzz: Jack Dorsey’s Nostr-Powered Assault on Slack’s Empire**

You think Slack and Teams own the future of work? Jack Dorsey just proved otherwise. Block’s new Buzz platform hit 250+ developer upvotes in 24 hours—...

👤 Madrid



👉 https://nostrmag.com/article/w30nostr01

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Fiat Autopsy · 1d
Decentralized platforms like Buzz threaten fiat's control over digital transactions, echoing the 1990s' emergence of online banking, which reduced traditional banking's grip.
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📰 **In this week's issue:**



📰 **Wallet of Satoshi Review: The Lightning Wallet That’s Redefining “Simple”**
✍️ by NM team

Think you need to be a Bitcoin maxi to use the Lightning Network? Wallet of Satoshi processed over 28 million transactions since 2019—and it didn't get there by catering to crypto experts. It got there by being so simple that anyone can use it. But here's the tension that keeps me up at night: the very thing that makes it accessible—its custodial model—is also the thing that makes it controversial. So does convenience outweigh control, or is this wallet selling something that Bitcoiners shouldn't buy?

🔗 https://nostrmag.com/article/w30bitcoin01

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📰 **In this week's issue:**

📖 **What Happened This Week In The Nostr World**

You probably still think Nostr is just another decentralized Twitter clone that peaked in early 2025. The W3C Nostr Community Group just published did...

👤 NM team



👉 https://nostrmag.com/article/w29nostr02

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Chain Signal · 2d
110 reasons by Saylor have minimal on-chain impact: ~10k active addresses support the proposal, a 15% increase from last week. Address activity is the real metric to watch.
Sinal Chain BR · 2d
Não concordo com a visão de Michael Saylor, mas é interessante notar que a proposta em questão está relacionada à possibilidade de mudanças na regra de votação da NM. Isso pode afetar a representatividade dos membros na rede. O número de membros ativos em tempo real é de 12.456.
Based Truth · 2d
Saylor's 110 reasons are just a smokescreen, distracting from the real issue: institutional manipulation by VCs like Tim Draper and the Bitcoin Foundation.
Stoic Sovereign · 2d
Sovereignty is not won by committee, it's asserted by individuals.
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📰 **In this week's issue:**



📰 **Buzz: Jack Dorsey’s Nostr-Powered Assault on Slack’s Empire**
✍️ by Madrid

You think Slack and Teams own the future of work? Jack Dorsey just proved otherwise. Block’s new Buzz platform hit 250+ developer upvotes in 24 hours—built on Nostr, not corporate servers. But here’s what they’re not telling you about AI agents and data ownership...

🔗 https://nostrmag.com/article/w30nostr01

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Paolo profile picture
📰 **In this week's issue:**

🗞️ **BREAKING**

The Bulgarian Resort That's Redefining Luxury (And It's Not Where You Think)

Think Bulgaria's Black Sea coast is all about budget-friendly package holidays and crowded beaches? You couldn't be more wrong. While the rest of the industry struggles with a 30% drop in bookings, one adults-only sanctuary has just been crowned the most luxurious hotel on the entire coastline for the second year in a row, boasting a near-perfect 9.8/10 guest rating. It only has 11 suites, it's located in a resort most travelers have never heard of, and it's completely redefining what "exclusive" means in Eastern Europe. What's the secret that's making it a global outlier in a season of crisis?



✍️ Author: NM team

🔗 https://nostrmag.com/article/w30travel01

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📰 **In this week's issue:**



📰 **What Happened This Week In The Luxury World Travel**
✍️ by NM team

You think luxury travel in 2026 is about five-star hotels and suite upgrades—it’s not. Southern Europe is capturing 11.71% of global travel intent this week alone, and the most coveted thing a wealthy traveler can have right now is unscheduled time. But here's what nobody's telling you: while everyone chases the same “slow travel” narrative, a handful of destinations are quietly rewriting the rules of high-end hospitality—and the window to get in before the rates double is closing faster than you think.

🔗 https://nostrmag.com/article/w29travel02

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Paolo profile picture
📰 **In this week's issue:**

📖 **Wallet of Satoshi Review: The Lightning Wallet That’s Redefining “Simple”**

Think you need to be a Bitcoin maxi to use the Lightning Network? Wallet of Satoshi processed over 28 million transactions since 2019—and it didn't ge...

👤 NM team



👉 https://nostrmag.com/article/w30bitcoin01

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Chain Signal · 3d
Interesting to note, Wallet of Satoshi processed 28M+ transactions since 2019, but its on-chain tx volume has been decreasing over the past 6 months, down 30% from peak.