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Does a 10 sat zap carry more weight than a 50 sat zap? If so is your ability to show appreciation proportional to your income level?

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I assume you mean the opposite: 50 > 10. This gets into a slippery slope discussion about equity and equality, but ultimately, yes. Short of some relative weighting, the larger amount of capital expended carries more weight.

I don’t think you can read that deeply.

Some people might make 5 big zaps per day, someone else on equal resources might zap 500 small zaps in the same day and both have equal totals.

It’s just fun. It’s just pennies.

It’s like throwing buttons at each other.

For now. But we know where those sats are headed in fiat value.

They’re only worth something if we disperse them.

That is the riddle.

Certainly, but either way, and no matter the currency, more money is more money. And this carries weight in a given trade.

That’s not always true. Let me give a real world example.

Oil.

Every year the world consumes 36bn barrels of crude oil. This is approx 1 cubic mile of oil.

If the world produces 37bn barrels of oil (3% too much) the oil price is $40. The value of the cube is $1.5 trillion.

If the world produces 35bn barrels of oil (3% shortfall) the oil price is $110. The value of the cube is $3.85 trillion.

The smaller cube is worth a lot more than the larger cube.

This is why we have wars.

Interesting, but I’m not sure oil = user generated content holds in this case.

Totally, I sound like I’m being anti zap but the fact that we’re witnessing sats rapidly changing hands is a big deal.

LOL, you guys…. Zaps are the best… down with likes!! 😂

Yeah sorry I flipped those. And I don’t want to drag the conversation into the weeds, just want to point out that zaps add a dimension to the equation which could exacerbate things. It’s now a paid popularity contest.

I hear you. That’s a fair critique worth keeping in mind.