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Came to the future of social media and I don’t know anything about #zaps or #relays 😵‍💫

It can be a bit overwhelming it's true! The future does have new features and terms, just take it slow.

Zaps is the term for micropayments you can receive from and send to other users as little tips. Relays are simply the servers where your content ie notes, are stored.

The simplest way right now to set up Zaps is to log in to Primal iOS or Primal Android and create a wallet. It's pretty intuitive.

Relays you don't need to worry much as most apps have them set for you, but you do have the option to pick them yourself. A lot of the apps have relays recommendations in the relay settings for you to pick if want/ would need to.

Which app are you using?

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Cindyblue 1y ago

I’m using Damus ios

monsieurenchilada 1y ago

I see you got yourself setup with Primal, nice! If you use any other Nostr app, all your zaps will still go to the Primal wallet, so if you ever get confused where it's at, it's there.

So if you change clients again the zaps will still go to your Primal wallet, but if you no longer wish to receive them in the Primal wallet you can erase the address from your profile info (under Bitcoin Lightning Tips in Damus) and replace it (if you want to receive zaps) with a separate wallet address of an wallet app your choosing.

That wallet app will give you a Lightning Address, which looks much like an email address, to put in your profile info. You can copy it and paste it under "Bitcoin Lightning Tips" in your profile and that's it, now you can RECEIVE zaps in that wallet.

To SEND zaps from a Nostr app that doesn't have a built in wallet, it will open your chosen wallet app to do so. Here's a wallet I can recommend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3QwxCd1EZE

He goes through on how to use it and specifically how to SEND in many ways starting at 24:28 of the video.

Welcome to Nostr! And if there's any doubt, just @ me or post a question with the hashtag #asknostr that someone will probably show up and help out! Pura Vida!