**Idea for a meaningful badge that could help fund nostr makers**
Award those who support nostr developers via zaps, amounting to more than a certain value per month a badge.
Some automation and curation would be needed for this one, so the creator of this might himself be eligible as recipient of badge-worthy zaps.
Some thoughts on how I would design this:
* Have a commit hook on all nostr projects (yes, I would only support open source this way)
* Monitor a special file for pubkeys. `/teamNostrKeys.yaml`
* Track zaps towards such pubkeys
* Award 5 tiers of badges - Shrimp to Whale or Hummingbird to Ostrich sponsor of the nostr ecosystem
* Have badges expire after one month until we figure out how to revoke them
* Award new badge according to last month's zaps
While giving badges for the sponsors, the makers absolutely also should get badges by the same script that already collected the npubs of all of them.
Should the zapped amount go into this badge, too? Recipients of more zaps clearly are more relevant makers than those with little or not zapping, right? Or does that only promote zapping of those that already get zaps, which would add an incentive to zap themselves or in circles?
Also there is client devs that make users of their clients their followers by default which certainly skews the zapping away from merit more towards smart marketing.
On the sponsor side, inflating numbers might not be as much of a problem. If somebody vainly zaps his sock account that he put into a team list to pump his numbers for free, people will notice that he's sponsoring an unknown developer with no apparent contributions and shame them and I don't think that being a big sponsor will drive much zapping towards the sponsors, so the economic incentives are minimal here.
