Zaps are implemented in Zappool, from now on payouts are done as Zaps by default!

With this, Zappool is feature complete, so I declared it v1.0 live version.

Zaps are shown in most Nostr clients; e.g. https://www.fatzaps.com/npub17qt0gf99uxe3n3aa8nj93hspe0x3vfn7wwmv42adfc96y8g8ngcqpakg7l (The zaps are to npubs, not a post, that's why not all clients show them).

If you don't want the Zap, only the lightning payment, you can prefix your npub by "NOLN:" (nostr lightning),

e.g. "NOLN:npub17qt0gf99uxe3n3aa8nj93hspe0x3vfn7wwmv42adfc96y8g8ngcqpakg7l".

See https://zappool.org/faq.html#can-i-get-paid-to-my-nostr-account-without-the-zap-event .

Sometimes I sit back and think about how wonderful is all the tech on which Zappool is built upon:

A crazy guy had the idea to reverse-engineer a mining chip, and build an open source miner hardware, just for fun. Joined by another crazy guy (across the ocean) they did it: Bitaxe was born, now produced by many companies by hundreds of thousands.

Another crazy crazy guy created a mining pool that is permissionless: Ocean pool was born, now with more than 20 exahash of power.

And there is the whole Nostr world, and the whole Lightning ecosystem.

And all based on bitcoin.

Whose genesis block was created exactly 17 years ago (well, tomorrow).