We’re so early
According to https://zaplife.lol
nostr zaps 8,200 sats / 10 minutes ⚡️
That’s 1.18 million sats / day ⚡️
That’s 431 million sats / year ⚡️
≈ $100,000 / yr
This is with approx 10k DAU on nostr (counting only high quality pubkey, complete bio, pfp, etc)
Suggesting quality pubkeys are averaging…
$1/month in zaps⚡️
No idea how accurate this is, or how much of the network is observed? 🤔 It’s probably partial.
I think this will grow with tighter integration and broader adoption of NIP-57. But then nostr is currently heavy with Bitcoiners who appreciate the zap.
What is ⭐️ aMaZiNg ⭐️ is that this actually works and is functioning. This functionality will mature and scale and it’s going to become an entire economy in its own right.
nostr.band stats show the number of zaps / day increasing by 500% in just 4 days ⚡️
Again, probably not a full picture but a very positive sign.
All in all, some big numbers here and some serious growth rates. Meanwhile the number of relays serving events now stands at 1,035.
🚀 progress 🚀 progress 🚀 progress 🚀
Discussion
Yeah, we were here before zaps and we’re seeing the whole thing spinning up from nothing.
In the future, nobody will believe you were on nostr before zaps. Nobody will believe you zapped some of the first zaps.
Yes I will. I was there! I’ll memba
Saving my WOS Zap history 🔥
“I remember back before nostr had zaps! We had to copy and paste invoice URLs around! Most people hadn’t even used lightning before!”
And people would just randomly pay them, can you believe that? Especially stupid invoices with infantile numbers got paid right away
lightning:lnbc690n1p3l205upp575tdx84wujpwskjtqhlapqax9k828vkalf99txknm39aauhq0edqdq2de5kxefwyqcqzpgxqyjw5qsp5vgcjy58jyj4hd7xsm8xrg7vzh0lwaqkccjqvr00pwedy9498dscs9qyyssqlc4rtdw09ph7mkwxele77rnr7nvammgu5rwrn90sc28n68ux532ps8ytp2uqyq0qfvdjr34mwyhfazwcprqwqc60ggrpm963czkc9jqp4guwnh
Sorry for the delay, had to walk uphill in the snow to get to the wifi
