If more sats are zapped when likes are off likes is the debate over?
Genuine question and not being provocative
Discussion
Cut that stray “likes” out
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It's Friday and no The Bolt ⚡ newsletter? 🤷🏼♂️
Not this week. I'm testing which days get the most opens, clicks etc and Fridays tend to perform the worst so going to test week days further. Next one on Monday :)
I think when we have faster non-custodial wallet zapping that’s easier than today, that doesn’t require time/effort flipping between apps, and has a concept of budgeting or clear expenditure, it will be in a good place to grow the number of zaps.
Otherwise it kind of depends if it’s actually valuable to 90% of people, or too smaller amounts and too few to care about. A zap worth $0.01 or less is effectively no different to a like. And unless you’re getting 10,000+ zaps, it’s not going to significantly impact most people’s lives - or they send zaps out and it’s a zero sum anyway.
If you take out the three big zaps I’ve received, the mean value halves. Not saying I’m a model account either.
Obviously if BTC 10X at least one more time the economics change.
Behind the scenes this is all limited by the amount of attention in the world that can be spread across the Nostr network, and how much engagement most people can expect to get. If people don’t have time to see it (discoverability) and read it, they certainly can’t zap it.
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Agree, as it becomes seamless the zaps will flow more.
I think the first group to adopt zaps other than bitcoiners will be the online politics sphere.
Reasons why are:
- Donations are common in politics already
- Political dissidents are often banned from legacy payment systems
- I look at some political tweeters who get 4,000 likes for a tweet that goes viral. If they earned 1 cent per like that's $400. Do three or four of those a day and they can increase their operations etc