Nostr has the potential to upend the system of control the fiat world has created over artists, but only if nostr users upend the status quo of expecting everything for little to nothing in return.
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8m sats pretty good not bad but not a day job.
What is 8M sats?
~8million Sats = your received - sent
You are the example because I dont know of another account that is such popular and good original content. If it wasnt for all the 1 sat zaps I am sure it would be a more impressive # of sats and would entice others to create here. (Maybe other creators have many more than you idk).
You are right about 1 sat zap 'weeds', but i think many have barely any sats in savings. I place my money on many more nostr users wish they could afford lots of big zaps for some of the content here, but it just isn't the case. A zap imo, even of a single sat, shows that you are creating content that is appreciated, albeit with very little value back.
Or are 1 sat zaps just for trolling?
I stick with a default of 50 as someone with a few million sats in savings. I dont 'like' any notes, it is zap or move on. I enjoy the freedom to custom zap at leisure, and am glad the apps do not have a set minimum built in. If you are not appreciating all zaps, then you are thinking to much in fiat.
There will only ever be less than 2,100,000,000,000,000 satoshis and all zaps are in there.
Dont put too much stock in public zap stats, especially with users who have been on here a while, unless you also believe nostr:nprofile1qqs9kqvr4dkruv3t7n2pc6e6a7v9v2s5fprmwjv4gde8c4fe5y29v0spzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxuur4vghxyctje97k4k has actually been zapped more than 25 whole coins đ
Hey Corn, just cause your memes are not QW quality don't mean you can disregard public stats
đ€Ł Old school zap battles, self zapping âfor testing purposesâ, and other zap shenanigans make us all look a lot better off than we are. lol
Of course, so the amounts don't matter. What says you of the pair of yea doing over 23k zaps each?
Yea I donât believe any of the totals for those of us who were here those first few months after zaps were created. You wonât really see as much of that stuff now though, so maybe more recent zap stats are a bit more reliable. Still doesnât account for self-zapping from another npub though, which some people do. It also doesnât account for private/anonymous zaps. And it doesnât reflect relative purchasing power of zaps over time. A 10k sat zap in 2023 was cool, but was only a couple of bucks.
Not expecting anything in return is the mentality to have, but if someone has the opportunity to help or contribute to something, they should do so without thinking too much.
that's why we must give almost nothing instead of nothing- a fragment of a fragment of value, dust.
Got to give more than we get.
why do you think I'm here? for years Facebook has been mistreating just one person for uploading their drawings, the modifications they made to Twitter caused many artists to lose many clients and what Collective Shout, UK, Visa, Mastercard and Paypal did made them look for alternatives.
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