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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