Unpopular truth: Many (most?) zaps on nostr aren't even Lightning transactions.
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How?
Most zappers use the same custodian to zap so when they zap each other that's just a database change 🤷‍♂️
Care to expound? Are you suggesting a WoS to WoS doesn't use the ⚡️?
1) what
You mean cause of custodial wallets?
Because WoS —> WoS?
You’re talking Wallet of Satoshi, or Muun swaps, or both?
I'm talking about WOS to WOS zaps that are just a database change.
Yes, indeed. I get what you mean. Well, this should change when more wallets support LNURL and BOLT 12.
Yep. True money anarchy comes when were all zapping from our own nodes. Right now this is like 80% people sending money on venmo to each other.
What am i saying, 98%
Yes, that’s going to be a real game changer in so many ways. It will draw tons of relative liquidity through small pleb nodes, and promote new node adoption with all the benefits that come with it.
Yes this is the lightning network im here for...not the one where alby and wallet of satoshi are just ping ponging sats back and forth. If lightning really becomes a significant force in moving money globally, it NEEDS to be in use by hundreds of thousands of individual nodes. Otherwise it will be captured and the innovation dies.
I think most of the community feels the same way. It’s a core underlying principle that no open protocol or significant aspect of a protocol becomes captured.