Nostr is the best Lightning "app". Using Lightning to buy food, beer, and merchandise at a #Bitcoin conference a few times a year is cool. However, people do this so infrequently that it's almost seen as a novelty. Using Lightning to pay creators, donate to causes, and provide people with valuable feedback is even cooler. People do this all day long, every single day on Nostr. Zaps are fueling Lightning adoption.
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Preach it brother…
Absolutly. It would be imperative to implement ligthing to pay for some online stuff like bloggers we want to support, podcast we listen (I know it is supposed to be supported in podcasting 2.0 but it is just not too widely used), videos we like to watch, and it should not be isolated only on Nostr, it should be everywhere like in Telegram, Mastodon, Rumble, Odiseyee, Substack etc....
Wise words boss ⚡
Zapping creators is truly amazing, but #zaps can also be used to buy physical goods. I bought my nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n Jade from nostr:npub1hqaz3dlyuhfqhktqchawke39l92jj9nt30dsgh2zvd9z7dv3j3gqpkt56s with a #zap while he was at #BTCPrague. I paid nostr:npub1xy54p83r6wnpyhs52xjeztd7qyyeu9ghymz8v66yu8kt3jzx75rqhf3urc for my share of a steak dinner with a bunch of Nostriches in NYC with a #zap. Lightning and #nostr are the “magic” in Magic Internet Money.
Everyone on this post gets a zap. Love this.
I sold a GoPro on here. 🤣
But but but...no one uses Lightning. It does not work. No one runs a node. 😅
Right?
An obvious statement
This is actually very important. If you want more people to be on the network, you need it to become popular. Having an online economy where you can reward creativity will hopefully draw in popular creators.
These creators then bring over their followers to #Nostr . Zaps fuel the creator-economy which fuels Nostr adoption.
And, of course, it makes charity work very easy. And transparent!
I don't see how this protocol won't be ubiquitous within 5 - 10 years.
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I’m looking forward to doing my first payment over a spark gap. It must feel amazing.
What’s your best guess in terms of timeframes for when paying over the lightning network is a widespread payment option at terminals?
I couldn't even begin to guess. Maybe once Strike or CashApp can being Lightning to Clover and Square, it will start taking off. Strike was supposed to be in Clover, but I don't recall hearing anything after the 90 day beta. That beta should have ended a long time ago.
That’s great thanks. It’s moving in the right direction ~ 🤔
I have seen the ⚡️ symbol appearing here and there online to highlight payment/subs buttons.
Want to donate more. Gna work on that. Zaps and Bitcoin
That's why I am so bullish on nostr marketplaces/classifieds, if people can start to sell their time, labour, skill and products on nostr for LN or even LN based stablecoins, boy then we're cooking with gas
Nostr and Lightning. It’s like peanut butter and jelly.
I didn't own any sats on lightning until nostr, now I'm stack sats on lightning
Agreed!!
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Spot on, a few times a year is proof of concept, zapping took it to the next level
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