I love zaps ⚡! They are a great way to send some value-for-value.

However, zaps are a bad way to judge the general importance of a note, because someone could just zap themselves large amounts to send their note "trending", or otherwise impress onlookers, while actually incurring no real cost.

Here's my (maybe shocking/dumb) idea: should there be an option to *burn* sats 🔥 on a note? This would constitute a "proof-of-cost" that can't be gamed.

People could maybe zap half and burn half, ⚡🔥. That way the note creator gets value, but there is also a hard evidence that this post has value!

#asknostr