NOSTR is not Bitcoin, Bitcoin is not NOSTR. Donβt confuse them π
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Correct they are different protocols. Please comprehend what I wrote though.
As much as you want to, most people are just having fun posting on NOSTR, not transacting, and thatβs the way it should be, for now. NOSTR is barely 1 year old so lower your time preference, be cool π
Heβs being cool. His thoughts are spot on.
Taking emotions out of it, Zapping is like Holdemβ poker, money is being shuffled around but nothing new is being created. That alone is not going to lead to more adoptions. It will take some time for people to feel comfortable and start paying for stuff on Nostr.
A Zap is just another event type my dude. It's just a different type of post.
So far as NOSTR is concerned, a zap is just an event type β¦ representing a chain of events entirely outside of NOSTR.
This is, more or less, just like saying that Bitcoin payments (including those made over the Lightningβ‘οΈNetwork) are just packets being routed over the Internet.
Technically correct from one perspective, and when constraining the scope pf consideration to accommodate that "just") but actually obscuring rather than explaining salient aspects of the broader picture.
Yes. NOSTR is independent of βΏ and LN. Zaps are just an optional feature and application of NOSTR protocols and some clients.
All of that said, NOSTR's LN support would be far better if BOLT12 Offers support were more widely available in wallets AND if NOSTR clients integrated it for zaps as well as other features.
I should be able to "subscribe" to any BOLT12/zaps enabled user (account, entity) by clicking on an offer in their profile.
This has been supported in Sphinx Chat for as long as I've used it.
Currently, Nostr is the best Lightning "app" and Lightning is the best Nostr "app". I will die on this hill.
Personally I've found Sphinx Chat to be a better LN app than NOSTR.
Of course its major barrier to entry, the main reason its usage is so low (apart from lacking any benefit of nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m's endorsement, promotion, and financial subsidy) is that you MUST establish LN liquidity to use the app at all.
But, once that hurdle is lept, you have booste, direct payments, staking as anti-spam mitigation, and the ability to subscribe to other users (for instance I "subscribed" to my wife's account for 2000 sats per week to ensure that she'd have plenty of chat funds without having to ask nor fuss with BlueWallet, etc).
Also Sphinx supports Jitsi video conferencing from within the app.
I don't want this to become a pissing contest. Bit maybe your criteria for "best" are tautological? Or perhaps you're just unaware of the alternatives.
I spoke with nostr:npub1mp7s34w0c50arlvmfpk6j89ey9q74fr66yj02psuztmt2a4ahv3sv26upp at The Canadian Bitcoin Conference and he was intrigued by Nostr and we briefly discussed rebuilding Sphinx Chat on Nostr.