I’ll take their sats. 😬

I tried it once long ago when I created my first Nostr pinboard. But I agree with you, organically would be better. Due of that I just discovered Firefish which I am looking into now. Maybe I can have a referral code? Keeping the Nostr Ethos would maybe that hard as keeping the WWW ethos of Tim Berners-Lee

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. I am from that early days, and now its mostly big-tech that is visible to the mainstream. Developing apps such as FireFish and @VPNSTR as FOSS on the Nostr protocol and decentralized relays might help. It's still a hard and long way to go, but hopefully stacking BTC and the ethos might give some freedom to do this.

I‘ve been pondering this question as well. Where I end up is that in contrast to email marketing (which is free and infinitely scalable) zapvertising requires proof of work and brilliantly showcases the spam prevention concept from HashCash. So the marketer must target potential customers that are more likely to gain value from an ad to not waste money. Feels more like a win-win scenario to me than current marketing models.

100% (Sending you the Firefish referral code via DM, thanks!)

Zapvertising is indeed an improvement over traditional marketing techniques. But still ... Right now the targeting looks pretty random, probably due to the limited size of the Nostr audience. Hopefully, going forward the target definition will improve and I will appreciate the usefulness of the zapped ads that will be sent to me.

Yeah it‘s early days. I also assume that as sats are priced appropriately over the coming years that signal-to-noise goes up too.

I agree that it's annoying, but it a problem really easy to solve: just let the client/wallet filter the notification, and maybe the visualization, by amount.

Wallets should just not display the message (under a certain threshold?) until the user taps into the transaction. That takes the value away for advertisers but retains the original purpose.

Sure, you can just hide the message behind a tap - removes the message from the payments list but users can still see it. Sadly, I think you’re right - and frankly dunno that the messages are worth having 🤷‍♂️

Agreed, it's just an annoyance. But we can always improve things, and in the end all details matter. (btw, both @Matt Corallo and @daniele suggestions are smart and worth considering, aren't they?)