Alright, so Apple is a private company and can do what they want… theoretically. Is zapping sending information or sending money? Technically, a zap is a kind of Lightning transaction, which is on a network completely decentralized and NOT owned by Apple. So is Apple violating a law… somewhere in the world… by making a rule which arbitrarily stifles one kind of lawful, non-harmful form of speech (info passing via Zaps) vs. another (writing English or German or whatever language tweets)?

Nostr’s own documentation does no help by describing zaps as tips https://nostr.how/en/zaps but are they really? ⚡️ is made up of two or more nodes handshaking to place some amount of Bitcoin into a joint custody arrangement to facilitate Bitcoin passing between parties without the major Bitcoin mining fees overhead, for settlement at some theoretical future date. Proving “money” changed hands via a Zap is going to be really impossible if I zap nostr:nprofile1qqsr7acdvhf6we9fch94qwhpy0nza36e3tgrtkpku25ppuu80f69kfqprfmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvshsrwkq7z 21 sats and then he zaps me back 21 sats. the Bitcoin settlement would essentially show no money changed hands.