I’m beginning to wonder if zaps have fallen victim to unintended consequences. 🧐

When one-tap zapping was introduced a few months back along with NWC, the idea was it would make zapping frictionless and hopefully serve as a catalyst for the v4v economy.

What appears to have happened is that most people have set their default one-tap zap to 21 sats and it’s too much of a ux hassle to go through the extra 2-3 clicks to change the zap amount. Prior to one-tap zaps, all zap amounts needed the same number of steps, so people were more likely to pick amounts commensurate with the value the post provided 🤔

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As NgU zapping will decrease.

Its not a sustainable thing except for relay operators on a subscription basis.

For perspective, if $BTC even doubles from $65k to $130k, 100 sats would still be just $0.14

The average zap is really low.

Yup. I believe that the zapping bar for content is being raised as NgU.

Small but consistent received zaps will encourage daily interaction and in turn hone the skills of the creator to create more desirable content increasing content quality, total engagement and in-turn zaps.

I would rather have 10,000 penny zaps from as many people that like what is going on in the community than a single $100 zap. The former is much more valuable and sustainable not to mention will help feed organic growth.

The whole current zapping is not enough to compete is true but only because the current content is not enough to compete effectively either.

If you create it they will zap

https://stats.nostr.band/ i can see since April doesn't seem very different. Would be interesting to see the the zap frequency/zap amount ratio over time, especially since last year when they were introduced.

I don't have that problem with noStrudel. I still zap according to the value I think the note produces. That can be flowers, food a meme or a long post. If it makes me laugh or think I'll zap it accordingly. If the note is however attempting to drive me to another site to consume the content I probably wont click the link or zap the note.

I set mine to 49 sats because I’m kind of a big deal.