ETH is 100% riding on the coat tails of #Bitcoin. It absolutely needs an ascending Bitcoin to pump. The ETH Dev team has done everything they can to constrict supply to get the turd to pump but there is no long term value in that approach and the market is realizing that.

I'm a fully self sovereign Zapper! I don't rely on any 3rd party to send and receive Zaps! Several months back there was a lot of discussion about how the vast majority of Zapping was custodial. There is no need for that, it's easy to be fully non-custodial! Here are the quick and easy steps if anyone is interested: Run a Bitcoin Node Run a Core Lightning Node on clearnet with good liquidity and a handful of channels Connect BTCPay server and configure a Lightning Address Install the BTCPay Nostr Plugin Update my Nostr profile appropriately Great, it works, but not reliably so I also added some channels: getalby - minimum channel size 10,000,000 sats WalletOfSatoshi - minimum channel size 5,000,000 sats Now it all works reliably, easy! I hope you could catch my sarcasm because I was laying it on pretty thick! Unfortunately there is no way that even the vast majority of Nostr power users can pull this off. I'm a Bitcoin Nerd (masochist?) who sets this stuff up because I think it's really fun. Maybe someday there will be an easier way to set up non-custodial Zapping but for the time being Zapping will be fully custodial and I think that's okay. We need more more "Zapping Providers" and more diversity in usage of these providers so that if a given provider rugs the entire Nostr Zapping community doesn't get wiped out. Happy Zapping Nostriches!