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I fully understand what you're writing about. V4V is not a principle that will provide a livelihood for content creators today. Rather, it is a principle that highlights the fact that content is often not for free to create. People need to learn to pay for valuable content, which realistically means learning to recognize its value compared to what they are already paying for today. That takes time, and from that perspective, even 21 Sats is a positive promise for the future.

Thanks for your post, which helps people put zapping into a real context.

Juraj 2y ago

Agreed, and I love the idea of Zaps.

Maybe another story would be interesting. 10 years ago in an art group, me and nostr:npub15xkpvjux5fw2q0kgl8m9c6pv0wu5urgctq9tthftmu559lf4wxqqknkrnh were talking about Bitcoin being a building block of a parallel financial system. Cryptoanarchy was inevitable. The other members of the group said: "Cool, but let's try it in practice" and we started Paralelní Polis (with the first Bitcoin Coffee - the whole place was Bitcoin only).

Suffice to say Bitcoin was far from a parallel financial system, although we had everything needed back then - qr codes, some exchanges and later some ATMs. What was missing was the network effect.

With Bitcoin, we are getting closer to a parallel financial system, but I think another 10x of the network effect would be required.

Nostr is there. It's new, cool, with very low network effect. So in theory, it could work, if the network grows to a critical mass that would sustain content creators.

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Kuba 2y ago

Is it just the bitcoiners who are zapping, or did someone become bitcoiner, because they wanted to take advantage of the zap and reward someone?