All of the terms below are used by various apps and protocols to denote Lightning payments for content.
Which do you like best?
- Boosts
- Donations
- Tips
- Zaps
Discussion
Not posed to make a call on the technical specifications of zaps vs boosts for example, but I like the zaps name because it doesn’t have the baggage of a past social context AND the name directly implies that it’s a lightning payment as opposed to BTC. Great branding IMO
I disagree with the premise. You are not paying for content, you are showing appreciation towards the creator (or curator) *after* the consumption of said content. Big & important difference.
I would also like to stress that calling V4V payments "tips" is self-defeating in some sense, as most people think of "tips" as very small payments that are unnecessary/annoying/whatever. "Call it tips and you will receive tips," to quote Adam Curry.
Agree. What do you call them if not tips or donations? V4V, sats, boosts?
right now most podcasters call them boosts if they are one-time payments, streams if they are recurring payments, and boostagrams if the payments come with messages attached to them.
Payments or Zaps would fit. In english there's always struggle for words like this.
We could consider just using "send sats" and then in the UIs you would say "sats you sent", instead of "your tips", which isn't that bad.
I hear you, and there is a big difference between paying prior to consumption and paying after consumption.
However, these are all still Lightning payments attached to content and we have a handful of words that refer to the same actions.
Do you believe that converging on one term is important? Or is it ok that we use one word for podcasts, one for nostr, etc?
Zaps
Zap seems the most fitting for Lightning lingo
yeah it’s a fresh word without any baggage which is nice.
i posted this poll on twitter, nostr, and stacker news and zaps seem to be winning.
Zaps ⚡️
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