Nostr Web Client

I agree. The Nostr ecosystem is going through a significant crisis right now. Zapping is becoming more and more difficult. This started when Alby pulled out. I remember when it was enough to just enter an Alby address (in email format) into your Nostr client and the zaps worked. Switching to Coinos with NWC was already a step back in terms of user experience. You can say what you want about NWC, but it’s definitely more complicated than just using a simple Lightning address in email format. And there were also more glitches and hiccups compared to how stable Alby was before the end of 2024. And now the proposed alternatives are even more complicated.

If you're serious about lowering the barrier to entry, you need to start thinking from a usability standpoint, not just from a technical one.

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Garbage nsec 6mo ago 💬 1

Never once had a cashu zap (or zap equivalent) fail. Gotta retire LN zaps.

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semisol 6mo ago 💬 2

Try that again once people only accept zaps from certain mints.

Will fall apart in seconds

Niel Liesmons 6mo ago 💬 1

I don't get why. They are banks that have LN (or other channels) in between them (if I get it right).

I use mint A, you use mint B.

You send zap = You tell mint B to send BTC (LN or other) to mint A and mint out that amount to me.

You're just outsourcing the LN node + channeling to a more common level (which should ideally be quite small and private imo).

semisol 6mo ago 💬 1

So it goes through LN anyway. So why Cashu zaps then?

Niel Liesmons 6mo ago

I don't want to need a LN adresss, and want to run a node at a level that makes sense (a private group or community)

I like the simplicity of the cashu zap event and the way we can build interactions on it.

Garbage nsec 6mo ago

If you're in a group it should be on you to add the group mint. That should be part of group onboarding. If you don't add that mint then I don't see that as any different to not adding a LN address here.

If you take the view that Nostr doesn't scale outside of a small world context then what happens in a big world context (i.e the current wilds of Nostr, even though to be honest here is still like a group in spirit) ins't indicative of much.