Example: Bitcoiner wants to aid someone in developing Bitcoin economy and zaps him $200 worth of sats. That could potentially put his life in danger. His neighbors may start harrasing him for money.
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Send it direct to their address rather than zapping a note. Problem solved.
Indeed, however it doesnt prevent sats giveaways and influencers from draining the life out of this app as well. Those zaps numbers can be fabricated by zapping yourself from an alt account. Its meaningless except for stroking your own ego.
Yes I warned of that earlier when someone said zaps should be anonymous.
You can’t stop this entirely, however the human verification project by #[3] is the kind of thing that will allow people to see through this bullshit.
No reason that can’t keep people pseudonymous, people can still run alts, they just can’t create fake armies of crap because nobody will trust those zaps.
Ill take zaps from anyone that will send them, its just when users zap someone for good content, it doesnt need to be a public display of bragging rights. Bad incentives.
Do you expect a $100 bottle of wine is better than a $10 bottle?
You do right?
Is there anything stopping you from enjoying the $10 bottle more than the $100 bottle?
No.
Price is merely a signal. The value zapped to a post is indicative of how the market values it, it doesn’t provide a qualitative assessment of the note merely a financial representation of consumers.
And a easy to find, publicly listed target on your head for taxes or wrench attacks
Stand out the front of your local liquor store and target the blokes coming out with $100 bottles of wine then..
Not saying this won’t happen but if I wanted to find wealthy people to attack, https://zaplife.lol would not be my first port of call.
Nostr with 100M users would be regular people, like on facebook, connected with friends, family, kids at school, ex wives, not to mention institutions we dont want to have that info like governments, etc.
And Bitcoin is well in to 6-figures, there is literally millions times more content on nostr available than today, pretty much every fiat system will be available on nostr/Lightning at that scale and it will be government’s biggest enemy in the world.
Do you think people are going to spray Sats around like they do today with Nostr at 100M Users?
It wont be govs biggest enemy if we put all the financial data on a pretty spreadsheet for them and post it in their face.
It’s a fair point. There are both public and private channels available as zaps and tips.
Current implementation of zaps is public.
I think zaps are intended to be a very small quantum and are likely to become a single tap hot button.
There will probably be something slightly different that requires a bit more confirmation and privacy for larger transactions and purchases. This would be more familiar to people.
Nothing like zaps exists anywhere else.
Thats true it is unique to here. I fear people wont differentiate between the two and accidentally do more harm than good. A lot!
It’s very early, not even a couple of weeks since zaps went live.
There will be some strange edge cases, but on the whole I think ⚡️ encourages better mainstream behaviour online. I think this is achieved in very subtle but powerful ways that are not immediately obvious.
There will of course be vice and bad things, but I think that stuff will be visible. Nostr isn’t a place for hiding things, there are many copies of every event and they are held in many different places with different people.
Censorship resistance is a very different thing to privacy. Nostr is an inherently open forum it’s many to many, you have to work very hard to shoot for privacy.
People can even enter your pubkey and see your worldview and your DM meta data. Some of this will probably get tightened up.
But the default assumption for nostr is that everything you do is spread far and wide.