Woo got jury duty summons for the #zapathon. Fuck.

dumb question: what is the #zapathon?

#asknostr

No 2 pm PST

Not sure about European time as I'm in the US. Time here that it starts is 2pm

GM Nostriches..its #Zapathon day! 💜🫂🤙

you added 52561042@getalby.com to your profile. that's your "wallet". it's found on your profile by visiting your profile and people can Zap your content. the Zaps go directly to your Alby wallet.

I actually zapped you from Amethyst app on Android, but used CashApp to send it. Easy peasy.

Zaps are micropayments to other nostr users. Zapping is the action of sending sats to someone.

Sats are an abbreviation for Satoshi, which is the smallest fraction of bitcoin. (1/100M of btc)

So zapping someone is just sending him some money.

In order to do this you need to get a lightning network (LN) wallet. You can get one very easily by downloading Wallet of Satoshi from your app store. Then you just copy paste adress of that wallet into whatever client you are using. (usually you can find this easily somewhere in settings)

As for reasons why you would do that, there are many and none. You may send a couple sats just to show a more tangible appreciation of a post than a simple like or zhank you comment. You mqy send some just for shits n giggles. You may do so, to help a fellow pleb in need, or for literally any reason you can think of.

For instance #zapathon is quite fun and will be taking place later today. Starting at 22GMT0 and then for the next 30 minutes we all zap whatever notes include the #zapathon tag. It's a cultural thing, which you may end up loving or ignoring completely.

Zaps are not strictly neccessary for using Nostr, but they provide an enhanced experience. Receiving even a couple sats, is far more appealing than receiving likes, because it means, what you post is actually worth for others enough to send you some money.

The beauty of Zaps is that, you can make someone smile and feel appreciated for literally a cent or two. That's very cheap happiness and it is very addictive.

Welcome 🤗

Zaps work on top of lightning network (LN is a layer on top of Bitcoin, but in essence it just creates and uses standard Bitcoin transactions in an interesting way).

One case of zaps is when the receiver uses lightning address (like nout@stacker.news). I have that address associated with my profile and so you will see a little lightning symbol under my notes. When you click it, the Nostr app will send a request to stacker.news to fetch a lightning invoice for "nout". Stacker News hosts my lightning wallet, so it will reply with invoice and your wallet will open and pay for it. Stacker news then sends a nostr event that confirms that the payment happened and so you can see it show up under the posts.

Zaps are sats, which is the smallest unit of bitcoin.

I'm discovering #nostr. I'm just starting to understand how it works. Documentation is quite easy to understand (thanks to all contributors) but I don't get how zaps and sats are working. Can someone help me understand how I should get and send sats ? Where is my wallet ? Is it attached to my public / private addess ? Thanks ! #asknostr #help

Looks like it's working...

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Depends on the client. If using iOS keys, you need to go around their restrictions, with #zapplepay

Essentially you need to add your lightning address in your profile, some clients, like Amethyst have a wallet connect feature that's easy to use.