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With zaps out and working, expect many bad actors on nostr. I suspect we will see a large wave of attacks from seemingly new accounts saying all sorts of nonsense.
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Jeremy 2y ago

Can you help me understand how zaps enable bad actors? #sincerenewbiequestions

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HoloKat 2y ago

Zaps do what many of the self-proclaimed shitcoins promised to do. People are going to start throwing fits because we did on bitcoin layer 2 what the entire shitcoin industry is based on. And that’s not even including the stripe fanboys.

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Carlos 2y ago

Wrong, LN does that.

Zaps are layer 3 and are very loosely linked to the LN sats they represent on layer 2.

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Carlos 2y ago

They enable bad actors because

- they can be faked (scammers on youtube and twitter rely on bought likes and follows to make them appear legitimate)

- they distract people from plain LN, which has none of the drawbacks of zaps but can send / receive value just as well. Newbies now come to see zaps as the "de facto" way of sending / receiving sats. A bad actor who wishes to hinder LN adoption would encourage zaps, because once new adopters see that scams are very possible with zaps, once they see "sats" can be printed out of thin air, they will conclude there is no difference between bitcoin and shitcoins.

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