Zaps represent the only fundamentally new innovation in social media.
Everything else is a distraction.
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How do we convince the masses of this? How do we help them understand this innovation?
Zaps: Shifting social media incentives towards positive engagement. Embrace the power to reward, appreciate, and uplift genuine content creators. ⚡️✨
Unable to send zaps. What happened? It just opens wallet of Satoshi but doesn't have the person's wallet address to send
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Agree but most people won’t care about that. Money flow to them they will definitely care about.
Time
Wait a minute, what about Public/Private keys? 🔑🧀
How to expedite? I'm a teacher... how can I help? I already am pushing the limits of financial education for Bitcoin in the public system.
Yes, just a symbiotic photocopy ring.
Zap! Zap! Madafacka
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What even, is time? Is that separate from the person, and event? Hmm?
It’s the whole package.
We need events that cause mass adoption.
Zaps built into Tidal. Remonitize the platform.
This might hit tipping point. My 2 Sats ⚡️
Sorry, but until people understand what decentralized means and why it is important to them and to a functioning society... until they DO care about that... we <here> are biding time.
Disintermediated, p2p value transfer is important no doubt.
Disintermediated, uncensorable p2e (everyone) speech is (at the present time) a bigger innovation.
Yet, that selectively is the whole of the problem? Unlike an apple by the roadside, this one has been cooled in a facility for days, and has a label on it. No, it doesn’t say: eat me! Shorter shelf life, and reduces in value through transit.
Works now!
Tipping, which is essentially what zapping is, has been documented as far back as the 15th century... and *may have had origins much earlier than this... it is hardly a new concept...
....also from a crypto social media perspective, wasn't there a platform called DTube, where people were tipped for their content back in 2016/2017? As I recall, that fizzled out....
Actually not that new (talking about micro payments on sm). My IT teacher in school talked about it, and that was seven years ago.
What is new is that the currency used is not highly inflationary. Some of the sites he showed us (smaller German networks) used their own points or coins that you could exchange for fiat or goods/services.
What's also new is that the social media itself doesn't take a share from the zaps.
But I got your point and just wanted to start my #shitposting with some smart ass post.
You are welcome! 😆
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Les zaps se devraient d'être pour tous ceux qui créent et développent et ceux de l'ombre qui aident à améliorer en contenu des outils et non pour dénicher le filon comme tels que les influenceurs que Instagram a permis de s'enrichir sans apporter un truc utile à la société
Les zaps se devraient d'être pour tous ceux qui créent et développent et ceux de l'ombre qui aident à améliorer en contenu des outils et non pour dénicher le filon comme tels que les influenceurs que Instagram a permis de s'enrichir sans apporter un truc utile à la société , ce n'est pas comme cela je conçois le concept de zapps qui est selon moi contributif à l'effort de groupe en communauté une certaine solidarité, une reconnaissance de valeur -travail faisons juste attention à l'autre versant cupide de *l'influenceur* qui finit soir par dégoûter la masse ou à être copié et dans ce dernier cas un risque pour la plateforme et un dégoût des utilisateurs.
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It's not a story the Jedi would tell you
Is it sustainable though? Or will it run dry?
We need a decentralized classifieds ads, or market where people can sell their products ans services, similar to what Amazon, Rakuten and Walmart do, only decentralized.
Something like the that Utah uses, only decentralized.
KSL Classifieds
Classifieds for Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming | ksl.com
Buy and sell items in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. Post your items or search through thousands of listings.
Well said!
What is a zap?
You cannot force it. The masses convince themselves when pain or awareness grows. I hope will be the latter.
Zaps go beyond god, beyond Jesus, beyond Allah.
Zaps saved my life
Without zap am nothing
Fr? Wtf lol
Good job on RB
Yes its true, its thefuturee!
Decentralization that actually works is quite new too.
Don't forget about #DeSo the decentralized blockchain and their Twitter alternative #diamond which is still going strong.
Their deso #token with which you can also buy creator coins from your favorite creators is also very impressive. The better the creator performs the more their creator coin is worth...
And the whole thing works via etherium wallet as your Web3 identity.
Worth checking out if you aren't familiar with it 👍
I arrived on Nostr 24 hours ago after rejecting Threads. Only just noticed Zaps — just waiting for it to flow my way, haha. Nostr 'just works', I like it.
🙏ils se cherchent pour l'instant
#Zapathon
👋 @jack merci pour ce lieu incroyable
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If there is a token it's a scam
Fair enough, you have anything to backup the 'no exceptions' stance?
Zapped!
Is when someone send you a sats into your lightning network wallet. You need to have bitcoin lightning wallet such as wallet of satoshi and put the receive @addess to your LN address profile.
Oh thanks, it's quite a good idea. A way to reward good content financially, and probably to reduce add dependency too?
You don't have a lightning address
Get one
I'm curious though why Zap wouldn't use something like NANO (XNO) instead of BTC though. It's almost instant, and is inherently feeless. It does this without the need for a second layer, and uses ridiculously less power as well. It just seems like a no-brainer for everything this platform (as well as Zap) is about.
Just wanted to be the first to link these for visibility: #XNO #NANO
Facts!!
Can you list some of this forms of valeu?
A zap is a tip on the Bitcoin Lightning Network
Thank you
I hope soon I hate having tons of apps 😂
The advice I’ve seen led me to keep my cold storage, as lightning/zaps are connected to hot wallets (on all the time) so go with a dedicated zap wallets (I set up Alby and seem to work ok - yet to post/test much)
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Great call, would love to use my Blockstream wallet. @npub1qg8j...24kw I'm guessing you are onto this?
zaps make me happy
What do you think is it possible to add #NANO address to Amethyst user profile and button to make payments in #XNO?
how are zaps new? Didn't MINDS have this about 5 years ago?
on Hive, you get 7 days for them to like it, hive it or something. Zaps, you get forever. you can zap anytime
Pretty much! Add as your "website": nano:YOUR_NANO_ACCOUNT
Like:
nano:nano_165ncyhzggm6d9isrhfu956s6dnrt3tca8dge86b4uw97zddmt9cfwzyo63i
When clicking, this will trigger the automatic opening of the nano wallet.
Punto
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You can't have zaps on a centralized platform as it would be targeted as middleman.
few..
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#zap #zap #zap
i am going to also say truly free speach is a fundamental innovation. no offense @jack
Disagree. The censorship resistant relay structure is the real innovation here.
Time is what it feels like when events occur so keep on posting, developing, iterating.
1 #zap = 1 smile 😀
New here!! How this zaps works?! Likes that are Sats?!
Zaps are possible way to get monetize as creator from the first post.
❌ You don't need 1k followers and watch time. (YouTube)
❌ You don't need blue tick and 500 followers and impression 1M milestone ( X )
❌ Brand Deals ( Instagram)
Just connect your wallet - > Provide value to your audience - > Start stacking #Bitcoin
#nostr is revolutionary moment in social media world.
Create a wallet on Alby or Strike.
Connect it with your profile
Start creating content.
People will like and send you zaps ( Sats )
Likes and Zaps are different things.
You can buy coffee with Zaps can't with likes.
ye I much prefer zapping 69 sats over likes. Feels more powerful 😮💨
but twitter are adding phone calls 😮
Phoenix doesn’t* do them*
1. Zeus node in the phone
2. Alby with a self-custodial node
3. Alby or LN.tips custodial and move often to a self-custody wallet
Let’s try taking a poll on this.
What’s the bigger innovation, Censorship Resistance or Zapping Lightning Payments on notes?
Censorship Resistance
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Zapping Lightning Payments
note1xzttexsxmjx8gpam23zdwtncyxeqhz6mxrwmzdutz55erd8r4ugqa342g2
Everything else is a algorithm made for control the narrative
Well, yeah.
Wen dating apps have zaps?
Disrupt insurance payments next ;)
PoW vs PoS, nostr edition
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420 sats its small step for me but huge step for humanity
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Zaps and Elliptic Curve key based accounts. A shorter name would help people understand that. Crypto ID?
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I accept zaps lol
Not the way I do it
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When will there be a dating app on Nostr?
You're out of touch with reality
@jack started my FREE relay today over at relay.tools
join up man!
wss://GALAXY13.nostr1.com
Meanwhile, in the Nostr R&D labs...
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And not being able to delete
YES, Mister! :)
DINO
Decentralized In Name Only
aka scam
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#Zap on infinity and beyond
So which … oh 🤣🤣🤣
Hi all, how one can start? Any safe instruction to set it up?
You made the zaps ⚡️ for
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Really?
Did we uncensor … we did
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Zaps :
• engagement
• revenue
• antispam
This!
THANKS FOR THE 🧡 EVERYONE
IF YOU COMPLETED ALL STEPS IN THE PAST 24H AND HAVE NOT BEEN ZAPPED MESSAGE ME
If you didn't complete all the steps but left a comment anyways, you will also still be zapped a small amount :)
FYI there's still the Satoshee Treasure Hunt going on + new stuff, including giveaways and contests coming soon so get involved & stay tuned 👀
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PS. Tell your nocoiner / nonostr friends. This stuff ain't happening in fiatland, this is happening on #nostr
As @jack succinctly put it:
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Satoshee – The Winners' Club
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So far…. We need more.
that is true
True
Yes, I love the zaps, but my wallet is starving recently... I wonder what happened with the zapathon...
what about hexagonal nft avatars, that was very innovative of you
Stay humble, stack zaps
So this whole “nostr decentralization” is just a distraction?
🔥🤓 #plebchain #grownostr
Decentralization and censorship resistance are the fundamental qualities of Nostr and, indeed, all that the mandatory part of the protocol provides.
That is fundamentally more important than a payment or donation system.
My take is that freedom of speech is the fundamental issue that Nostr addresses and Bitcoin is the distraction.
Indeed, Nostr was always about censorship resistance and it's all the core protocol provides.
New users find most posts about Bitcoin and leave if they're not as obsessed with it, because it distracts them from the benefits of Nostr.
Spammers can pay.
Spammers are willing to pay money. They do so often.
They probably don't yet pay to spam on Nostr because it's like spamming to a clear wall.
I think economical incentives absolutely can deteriorate interactions a social network (which the Nostr community is).
Likes and other forms of social reward are decently enough aligned with engaging content that mainstream platforms like Reddit did have that on their favor. Now it may be different, in part due to bad decisions made by mainstream platforms, but they don't need to grow much larger.
Exactly.
Nostr provides a lot whether one wishes to use Bitcoin/zaps or not.
Freedom of speech is the true feature of Nostr.
One doesn't have to use Bitcoin to enjoy freedom on Nostr.
Nostr isn't even about Bitcoin.
And the Nostr community is a group of people interacting with each other in a shared ecosystem. Also known as a "social network".
It absolutely isn't a Bitcoin version of Steemit.
The point of Steemit (and its fork Hive) is to have censorship resistance trough a blockchain, making content impossible to remove and guaranteeing consensus.
Nostr isn't that. It isn't Bitcoin-based or even blockchain-based. There is no consensus. Relays can remove content. Censorship resistance is achieved by using multiple relays that can host the same content.
They serve somewhat similar purposes but are entirely different. And Nostr can be integrated with any cryptocurrency, not just Bitcoin.
Freedom of speech is what truly matters and all that Nostr provides.
Zap is a unique feature of nostr that everyone loves.
Zapping is the USP of nostr.
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I say it’s been enough time come on bro let’s do this
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Guess text posts are a distraction, so this note is a distraction lol!
I’d say that + real censorship resistance
I see what you’re doing 😉
can i zap people to get follows?
i'll zap you if you follow me :)
the payment system is very important as it's familiarizing people with lightning
This is the future!
This is freedom!
💪🏾🤘🏾😎⚡️
Why #Bluesky then?
What about the decentralization…. 👀
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Hey brother totally agree. Zaps zap the banks out of pic eventually. What are you thoughts on counterparty / XCP?
I care about
l love bitcoin / I love nostr
but open source has a big problem
not the whole mass of contributors have access to funds to sustain their work in the long term
even when crypto and bitcoin started to solve this problem
this problem is not solved yet
bitcoin / nostr don’t have a solution to fund contributors yet
we are burning devs
look my case
all my time and attention is here bc of love
but the more I do for the common network the less I get funded.
how is it possible?
P.S. I have the solution. #Bitcoin AGI
I presented it in my last application to open-sats
did you read it?
well-being ECONOMY
its much more of an incentive yet so simple, like a like but so much more..
There are many things in the world. The purpose of Nostr isn't to familiarize people with any one of them.
I don't think it's important.
I think it's important that Bitcoin adoption happens as soon as possible
Many things are important, it doesn't mean everything has to be about it.
Zaps are cool, but the absolute inability for anyone else to deplatform you is bigger.
IMO
Zaps represent the only fundamentally new innovation in social media.
Everything else is a distraction.
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I believe the true innovation of Nostr lies in its decentralized nature, with no central point of failure. Zaps are just the icing on the cake.
It's still true.
Zaps represent the only fundamentally new innovation in social media.
Everything else is a distraction.
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The discrete, user signed packet of structured data is the innovation.
The ability to reference other packets or authors by a globally unique ID is the innovation.
Zaps are an application of the base innovation of Nostr. Otherwise simple lightning payments would have had the same emergent effects, but it didn't.
Zaps represent the only fundamentally new innovation in social media.
Everything else is a distraction.
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i like Sats, but in most countries Sats are harder to get by than regular platform tokens such as TikTok flowers, lions, etc.., which you can get with a normal online payment
Now the highest paying job in social media is streaming
Yet, although its 2025 this primitive setup + 20-25 accounts on 3-4 different platforms is the #1 technology used by streamers that make +200k/yr to fight mid-stream account suspension
(similar setups can cost 20k+ easily)
and this is the only lucrative niche that NOSTR can capitalize on as a business
read more books
Hey Jack, you gonna zap some plebs then?
You have over 200 replies and not many zaps.
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Zaps represent the only fundamentally new innovation in social media.
Everything else is a distraction.
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Yes, the most important innovation of Nostr lies in its decentralized model, which is both simple and effective. Features like Zaps are appealing, but ultimately they are add-ons, functionality that could be integrated into other platforms as well.
Decentralized distribution is a foundational aspect of the protocol, something that must be built into the architecture from the ground up.
Social network.
we need to evoke the ‘swing’
a ‘time feel’ in our apps design