The cold wallet cabal worked so well that they scared everyone from developing and using a hot wallets that can be trully used. Fear turns any rational decision into an emotional one. And that trully sells.

if you don't want your onchain zaps on Amethyst, you will be able to hit the zap the devs button and donate it to the devs.

This was while onboarding a user into Primal which has the best wallet design/setup/onboarding on Nostr. This is why we had to give onchain zaps a try. Nothing is working. View quoted note →

Yes!!! finally, let's go! View quoted note →

Also, they named it "Silent" Payments and not Private Payments for a reason.. Don't think for a second that SPs are actually private. It's just a hidden link.

How is this for guidance: Your Taproot address is derived from your Nostr public key, so anyone who knows your npub can see this wallet's balance and transaction history on the blockchain. To preserve your privacy, fund and drain this wallet from and to non-private accounts, like exchanges. Never mix these funds with your cold wallets, and treat them as money you can lose, since anyone in control of your nsec can spend it.

Maybe we should rename the on-chain wallet to "Social Wallet".. In that way, everybody knows funds here can be seen and tracked by zaps. Use to have social fun not anything else. Drain it frequently in a private way, or just send it forward to other nostr creators.

On-chain zaps made me rethink about the main reason we do **zaps** in the first place. Zaps are supposed to be for the social fun. Its purpose is to be seen, to be public. "Private zaps" make little sense because they are just regular transactions, on-chain or not. Nobody can have any social fun with them. The goal of the "Zap" (on-chain or not) is to publicly show your fiancial support to the creator to everybody else. Now, if the fun is not there anymore or you are scared about it, you should not even try to participate in the zap economy. There are other signals you can send to have fun online, including regular transactions (the old tip jar, payment targets, etc). For the on-chain zaps future, we need to keep reminding ourselves that feature only works if we are using it correctly: to have **social fun**. It's not a regular wallet. It's a source of fun, pride and real signals that just so happens to use on-chain money. There are multiple ways to code it, with Silent Payments and all, but the purpose is to have fun with others. It is to be public. So, I fully support this initiative. And Amethyst will support removing anything Zap in such a way that you can just do regular private transactions if you want. You cannot control what others do, but your side will be configurable. View quoted note →